News on the topic: criminal prosecution
19.08.2024 The trial in the Mačuliščy case has begun in Minsk
The case is handled by Valiantsina Ziankevich behind closed doors.
14.08.2024 The pressure continues: what happened to political prisoners between July 16 and August 12
For more than four years law enforcement agencies in Belarus have been carrying out mass repressions. Almost every week the number of political prisoners in the country increases.
14.08.2024 We demand the rehabilitation of 22 former political prisoners
Joint statement by the Belarusian human rights community
13.08.2024 "I still have a scar on my foot from the shoe." How colonies regulate women's appearance
Today in Belarus 1,253 women who are convicted in politically motivated cases. 288 of them were sentenced to imprisonment.
13.08.2024 68-year-old pensioner sentenced to three and a half years in prison for helping political prisoners
On August 8, the Brest Regional Court sentenced political prisoner Natallia Malets under Parts 1 and 2 of Article 361-4.
08.08.2024 Special proceedings in Belarus explained
Belarus introduced the institution of "special proceedings," a new tool of repression against opponents of Lukashenka's regime and civil activists who fled the country.
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
31.07.2024 The statement on the recognition of six people as political prisoners
Joint statement by the Belarusian human rights community
31.07.2024 Lukashenka pardoned German Rico Krieger, sentenced to death
On July 30, it became known that Rico had applied for pardon to Aliaksandr Lukashenka.
30.07.2024 Journalist and human rights activist Uladzimir Khilmanovich is being tried in absentia in Hrodna
All the journalist's property has been confiscated.
30.07.2024 The statement on the recognition of 12 people as political prisoners
Joint statement by the Belarusian human rights community
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.
26.07.2024 Statement by the human rights community of Belarus on the recognition of seven political prisoners
Statement by the human rights community of Belarus
25.07.2024 Statement on recognition of 13 people as political prisoners
Statement by the human rights community of Belarus
