News for October 2024
07.10.2024 Yury Ziankovich sentenced to additional 2 years of imprisonment. He is currently in the KGB pre-trial detention center
Viasna has collected all known information about the persecution of the political prisoner as well as about his health.
07.10.2024 "Welcome to the Motherland." At least 66 people convicted in political criminal cases after returning from abroad
Of these people, at least 36 are currently behind bars.
07.10.2024 Up to 25 years in a penal colony: 12 defendants sentenced in the Mačuliščy case
Mikalai Shvets, who was released in June on an exchange with Ukraine, was sentenced in absentia to 25 years in a penal colony.
07.10.2024 Political prisoner Siarhei Ramanau was sentenced to two more years of imprisonment
The total term of imprisonment of the political prisoner is 22 years and 11 months.
04.10.2024 At least 24 people released in September after serving their sentences, 67 after being pardoned
What political prisoners served their sentences for and how many of them were imprisoned; Viasna recalls their cases.
04.10.2024 Belarus faces two complaints before the ICC
On Monday, September 30, Lithuania submitted a referral to the International Criminal Court (ICC) accusing Belarus for crimes against opponents allegedly committed on the territory of a State Party.
04.10.2024 Ruslan Akostka: "What is happening in the Belarusian penal colonies is torture"
Ruslan told Viasna about the conditions of detention in the Horki colony and a meeting with Nobel Peace Prize laureate Ales Bialiatski.
03.10.2024 We demand the rehabilitation of 13 former political prisoners
Joint statement by the Belarusian human rights community
02.10.2024 Kurdish woman activist sentenced to death: Pakhshan Azizi
Humanitarian worker and civil society activist Pakhshan Azizi, from Iran’s oppressed Kurdish ethnic minority, is at risk of execution following a grossly unfair trial by a Revolutionary Court in Tehran, reports Amnesty International.
02.10.2024 Political prisoner Zmitser Dashkevich sentenced to an additional 1 year and 3 months of imprisonment
This time, the activist was charged under Article 342 of the Criminal Code (active participation in group actions that grossly violate public order), as well as Part 1 of Article 411 of the Criminal Code (malicious disobedience to the requirements of the penal colony administration).
02.10.2024 "It's hard to talk about, but people forget about it." Political prisoner in the Zeltser case on the anniversary of his detention
We publish a monologue by Artsiom Zadrutski on the anniversary of the Zeltser case.
01.10.2024 Philosopher, priest, cycling activist, editor: more than 40 older people remain behind bars
On the International Day of the Older Persons, we share some of their stories.
01.10.2024 IAPB platform welcomes Lithuania’s referral of crimes against humanity by Belarusian officials to the International Criminal Court
Statement of the International Accountability Platform for Belarus.
01.10.2024 Evidence of the crimes of the Lukashenka regime submitted to the International Court of Justice in The Hague
The Human Rights Center Viasna helped with the collection of evidence of crimes committed by representatives of the Lukashenka regime.
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