News on the topic: Amnesty International
21.04.2020 Amnesty International: 657 people executed in 2019, Belarus kills at least 2
In 2019, global executions fell by 5%, hitting a 10-year low, Amnesty International said in its annual overview of the death penalty around the world.
17.04.2020 Belarus in Amnesty International's annual human rights review
Amnesty International has released an annual report on the human rights situation in Eastern Europe and Central Asia.
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- Pavel Sapelka: "Among 1,300 political prisoners, all candidates for this position from the previous elections are held incommunicado"
- 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
- The former host of the show X Zone shares his thoughts on the prison and the decision to leave the country