News for July 2024
31.07.2024 "Little hope that the level of persecution will decrease." The third Barometer of Repression report has been released
The Center for New Ideas presented the third The Belarus Barometer of Repression report. Many of the figures in the report were taken from quantitative data collected by the Viasna Human Right Centre.
31.07.2024 The statement on the recognition of six people as political prisoners
Joint statement by the Belarusian human rights community
31.07.2024 "The number of appeals will show the real level of persecution in the country." We recall what decisions the UN Working Group has taken since 2020
Together with Sviatlana Halauniova, a Viasna lawyer, we recall the cases of political prisoners which the UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention has taken decisions on since 2020.
31.07.2024 Belarusian political prisoners in high-security prisons: pressure intensifies
Viasna reports how the administration of the colonies punishes political prisoners and which of the political prisoners are recognized as "malicious violators of the order."
31.07.2024 Lukashenka pardoned German Rico Krieger, sentenced to death
On July 30, it became known that Rico had applied for pardon to Aliaksandr Lukashenka.
30.07.2024 Journalist and human rights activist Uladzimir Khilmanovich is being tried in absentia in Hrodna
All the journalist's property has been confiscated.
30.07.2024 The statement on the recognition of 12 people as political prisoners
Joint statement by the Belarusian human rights community
29.07.2024 "They came almost every night": political prisoner speaks about home confinement in Belarus
He spoke with Viasna about home confinement in Belarus and the conditions of detention in the Škloŭ colony.
29.07.2024 At least 450 people were detained in Belarus from April to June
Viasna human rights activists have calculated the total number of detentions for the second quarter of 2024.
26.07.2024 Statement by the human rights community of Belarus on the recognition of seven political prisoners
Statement by the human rights community of Belarus
25.07.2024 Statement on recognition of 13 people as political prisoners
Statement by the human rights community of Belarus
24.07.2024 "Aimed at inducing convicts to plead guilty." Viasna lawyer analyzes the changes in the law on open-type correctional institutions
Viasna lawyer Pavel Sapelka analyzed the amendments to the law and explained what would change for those sentenced to open-type correctional institutions, what would be considered a "violation of the conditions of serving time", and spoke about pleading guilty, which has now become a legal condition for being considered "corrected".
23.07.2024 The Rico Krieger case: we have collected everything that is known
Viasna has collected everything that is known about the Rico Krieger case, and Andrei Paluda, coordinator of the Human Rights Defenders against the Death Penalty campaign, comments the prospects.
23.07.2024 "Such a diagnosis in Palina's conditions is like a death sentence." Political prisoner Sharenda-Panasiuk was diagnosed with chronic pancreatitis
Recently, Palina's relatives received an official response from the administration of the women's colony No. 24, which indicated that the woman was diagnosed with "moderate chronic pancreatitis."
23.07.2024 FIDH, Viasna, and other organizations call on Belarus to stop the execution of Rico Krieger
Joint statement of international human rights organizations.
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