News on the topic: political persecution
22.08.2024 Lukashenka's bill: humanism or more persecution? Lawyer Pavel Sapelka comments
Viasna lawyer Pavel Sapelka analyzed the innovations proposed by Lukashenka and spoke about the most significant of them.
22.08.2024 More than 20 political prisoners were released on pardon, including Kseniya Lutskina and Vasil Berasneu
Human rights defenders do not publish the names of other released prisoners for their safety.
05.08.2024 Legal trouble abroad: Can Belarusian embassies take your passport?
Many Belarusian immigrants wonder if it is safe to visit embassies if they are facing criminal persecution in their country. Can embassy officials seize their passports?
05.08.2024 Expert psychologist Volha Vialichka sentenced in absentia to 9 years’ imprisonment
Hrodna Regional Court handed down a sentence to Volha Vialichka, an expert in the field of psychology and former director of the Children's Hospice in Hrodna.
05.08.2024 Journalists from Mahiliou sentenced to imprisonment
Mahiliou Regional Court handed down a verdict on former journalists Ales Sabaleuski and Yauhen Hlushkou for participating in an extremist and military formations
01.08.2024 At least 43 political prisoners released in July, 18 of them amnestied and pardoned
What political prisoners served their sentences for and how many of them were held in places of captivity, Viasna recalls their cases.
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.
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.
17.07.2024 The pressure continues: what happened to political prisoners between June 19 and July 16
Viasna reports the latest news about political prisoners.
10.07.2024 Verdicts have been passed in another criminal case in absentia
The trial was handled by judge Andrei Leshchanka.
09.07.2024 "She used a rag during her period." Former prisoners spoke about the conditions in Belarusian temporary detention facilities
Viasna spoke with three former prisoners from Minsk, Viciebsk, and Homieĺ about the conditions where political prisoners are held, about medical care in temporary detention facilities, and about the attitude towards foreign citizens awaiting deportation.
02.07.2024 Digest of the released: at least 27 political prisoners were released in June, five of them were exchanged
What political prisoners served their sentences for and how many of them were held in places of captivity, Viasna recalls their cases.
25.06.2024 The "cage" in women's penal colonies. What is it, what norms does it violate?
Viasna writes about what it is and what national and international norms such treatment of prisoners violates.
20.06.2024 Franak Viachorka was sentenced in absentia to 20 years of imprisonment
The verdict was handed down by judge Valiantsina Ziankevich.
