Economical Persecution of Protesting Entrepreneurs
https://spring96.org./en/news/19842
2008
2008-01-14T20:54:55+0200
2008-01-14T20:54:55+0200
1970-01-01T03:00:00+0300
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Freedom of peaceful assembly
- The UN Committee recognized violations of the rights of 13 people by the Belarusian state
- Political prisoner list in Belarus expanded by 10 names
- "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
- Criminal case initiated against Belarusians who took part in Freedom Day demonstrations around the world
Penitentiary system
- Former political prisoner Dzmitry Kaneuski: "I felt pressure against me in the penal colony on a daily basis"
- "People are forced to leave the country." What did a Viasna human rights defender say at the OSCE conference
- Yury Ziankovich sentenced to additional 2 years of imprisonment. He is currently in the KGB pre-trial detention center
- Ruslan Akostka: "What is happening in the Belarusian penal colonies is torture"
Latest news
- Pavel Sapelka: "Among 1,300 political prisoners, all candidates for this position from the previous elections are held incommunicado"
- "Four years have passed, but I can't forget that march to this day": the story of a Minsk driver
- Inmate ill-treatment and possible enforced disappearances in Belarus ongoing concerns, say UN experts
- The statement on the recognition of nine people as political prisoners
- At least 13 Ukrainian citizens held in Belarusian prisons for political reasons (updated)
- The European Parliament: "Elections held in a climate of fear and repression cannot be considered fair"
- Statement on the launch of an expert mission to observe the presidential elections* in Belarus on January 26, 2025
- Former political prisoner Dzmitry Kaneuski: "I felt pressure against me in the penal colony on a daily basis"
- "Prison is outside, not inside": artworks from behind the bars (photo)
- At least 360 people detained in Belarus from July to September
- Ukrainians convicted of a "sabotage for the Security Service of Ukraine": father and son sentenced to 20 years in a penal colony
- Four Scottish MPs take on a godparenthood for political prisoners in Belarus
- "One girl fainted after an injection right in the hallway": what is happening at Akrescina?
- Journalist Ihar Ilyash detained (updated)
- Viasna: We demand to stop the criminal prosecution of human rights defender Alena Masliukova
- The statement on the recognition of eight people as political prisoners
- Father's Day in Belarus: five stories about political prisoners who are fathers of many children
- "They began to threaten me with a new criminal case": Aliaksei Ramanau speaks about the persecution after the penal colony
- The statement on the recognition of four people as political prisoners
- In September, at least 170 people were convicted in criminal political cases
