News on the topic: political persecution
07.09.2022 Viasna digest: 16 political prisoners released in August. Most of them fully served their terms
Viasna recalls the released political prisoners' cases and sentences.
26.08.2022 UN Special Rapporteur on Belarus report: “Hostile environment is used as a powerful tool to compel people to leave”
The UN website has published the report of the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Belarus, Anaïs Marin.
09.08.2022 Two years after the election fraud in numbers
August 9, 2020, is a point of no return in the history of modern Belarus
27.05.2022 Criminal prosecution in Belarus: legal system completely reoriented towards repression
Viasna human rights defenders prepared a report “Criminal prosecution for political reasons. Belarus 2021–2022”
25.05.2022 KGB adds Maryia Kalesnikava and Maksim Znak to ‘terrorists’ list
The KGB updated the list of ‘terrorists’ with 15 new people, including Viktar Babaryka's associates
17.05.2022 Fastest trial of ‘dancing protesters’: two defendants convicted in less than an hour
On May 17, the Brest court considered the case of the next defendants in the ‘round dance case’
14.05.2022 Politically motivated administrative prosecution in April: Summary
Repression in Belarus has increased since the beginning of the war in Ukraine. All over the country, law enforcement officers conduct searches, arrests, and interrogations on a daily basis.
13.05.2022 #FactsOfRepression: Two years of state terror in Belarus
Two years after the unprecedented crackdown on dissidents in Belarus, Libereco presents a graphic report on the situation of the more than 1100 political prisoners in the neighboring country of the EU
09.04.2022 Crackdown on antiwar protests in Belarus cities and small towns
Belarusians protesting against the war in which the territory of Belarus is involved against their will
31.03.2022 Rail War: what we know about “Rail guerillas”
Belarusians are disrupting the railway network to slow down and prevent the movement of Russian military equipment into Ukraine
22.03.2022 'They beat him slightly, striking him in body and in face': another account on ill-treatment of detained protesters
Witness talks about torture and conditions in detention centers of Minsk and Žodzina
17.03.2022 Arrested protester: “He took woman out into corridor and banged her head against wall”
Eyewitness account of anti-war protesters' detention condition
16.03.2022 Belarus: What Accountability for Torture
Invitation to a virtual side-event at the margins of the 49th session of HRC dedicated to Belarus
09.03.2022 UN report: There is situation of complete impunity in Belarus
Fundamental human rights of tens of thousands of people in Belarus violated, countless others negatively affected
22.02.2022 Human rights defenders ask to take urgent action because of the persecution of the mother of activist Palina Burko
HRD's appealed to the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Belarus Anaïs Morin, the Working Group on Arbitrary Detention, and the Working Group on Discrimination against Women and Girls
