News on the topic: criminal prosecution
25.01.2022 Seven more political prisoners in Belarus
Statement by the human rights community of Belarus
24.01.2022 #FreeViasna: Weekly news digest on Viasna’s imprisoned human rights defenders
Latest news about imprisoned Viasna members
24.01.2022 Aliaksandr Vasilevich’s trial to be held in private
The trial in the case of the political prisoner was closed “in the interest of protecting state secrets and other secrets protected by law”
21.01.2022 Neurologist sentenced to four years in a penal colony stated about the beatings at the trial
On January 21, the Lieninski District Court of Hrodna passed a verdict in the criminal case against political prisoner Aliaksandr Tsialeha.
19.01.2022 Sport journalist and football player Aliaksandr Ivulin sentenced to jail
He was found guilty in a criminal case and sentenced to two years in a general-security penal colony.
19.01.2022 Ales Kaputski recognised as a political prisoner
Joint statement by the Belarusian human rights community
17.01.2022 #FreeViasna: Weekly news digest on Viasna’s imprisoned human rights defender
Latest news about imprisoned Viasna members
17.01.2022 HRDs call for retrials and release of political prisoners
Joint statement by the Belarusian human rights community
14.01.2022 Six months in jail. What is known about three detained Viasna members
What relatives say about the detained Viasna members, how they met the New Year without their loved ones, and what the human rights defenders write in their letters–in our story.
14.01.2022 Verdict to human right defenders of Viasna’s branch in Homiel unchanged
The judge ruled that the verdict to Leanid Sudalenka and Tatsiana Lasitsa was fair
13.01.2022 Human rights defenders call to release eight new political prisoners
Joint statement by the Belarusian human rights community
12.01.2022 Valiantsin Stefanovich from Viasna describes how he celebrated the New Year in pre-trial detention center
Valiantsin Stefanovich, a political prisoner, the deputy chairman of Viasna Human Rights Centre, as well as six other human rights defenders and volunteers from Viasna, celebrated the New Year behind bars.
11.01.2022 First verdict in “Zeltser case” pronounced in Mahilioŭ
Human rights defenders of Viasna learned the details of the case and the trial
11.01.2022 Marfa Rabkova about the Human Rights Defender of the Year award: "Please, pass on my great thanks for the honor of being given such a distinguished title"
In her letter to Nasta Loika, a human rights activist from Human Constanta, Marfa Rabkova, the coordinator of Viasna volunteers, describes how she celebrated the New Year, writes about the progress of her criminal case, her health status, and daily life, and shares her impressions of receiving the national Human Rights Defender of the Year award.
11.01.2022 Human rights defenders call to release Andrei Kuznechyk
Joint statement by the Belarusian human rights community