News on the topic: torture
30.09.2024 "When the security forces found that I had epilepsy, they reduced the power of the taser." The story of a former prisoner
Two years of home confinement for leaving Internet comments and threats to be sent to a penal colony for condemning the Russian army.
20.09.2024 "I'm probably just going to die here": The situation of political prisoners from vulnerable groups
Human rights activists have identified at least 254 political prisoners who are at particular risk of mistreatment while incarcerated.
17.09.2024 "I was shot in the leg at the protests." The story of former political prisoner Dzmitry Panko-Niakrasau
He expressed his position in the penal colony and ended up in SHIZO for 50 days.
10.09.2024 "I knew that sooner or later they would come for me": a confession of a former political prisoner
Mikalai speaks about his participation in the events of 2020 and about the persecution he experienced from the time of his detention to the moment of his release.
12.08.2024 Beatings, threats, inhuman conditions: what tortures Belarusians most often tell about. Statistics
The repression of Belarusian men and women who oppose the Lukashenka regime continues for the fourth year in a row.
28.06.2024 The UN Committee against Torture will provide the results of a confidential investigation into Belarus
One of the initiators of this investigation was Viasna Human Rights Center in September 2020.
27.06.2024 Belarus hits new low: Five years at the bottom of torture prohibition index in post-Soviet states
The Working Group on the Fight Torture of the Civic Solidarity Platform has released the annual results of measuring the Prohibition of Torture Index in these countries. For the fifth consecutive year, Belarus occupies the lowest ranking position on the list.
26.06.2024 "He put a plastic bag over my head and started suffocating me." On the International Day against Torture, we speak about torture in Belarus
Together with the Torture Documentation Department and DIGNITY - Danish Institute against Torture, we talk about examples of torture.
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.
24.06.2024 Stage play, quiz, "prison experiment": events of the Week against Torture, June 24–30
June 26 is the UN International Day in Support of Victims of Torture.
18.06.2024 "The head of the colony personally beats up political prisoners." A former prisoner speaks about the Viciebsk colony
He secretly brought the contacts of his cellmates out from prison and persuaded the "activists" to work with political prisoners.
13.06.2024 "The whole cell heard how he was beaten." Ex-political prisoner on torture in Žodzina prison
Žodzina stretching and the development of fine motor skills of the hands
16.05.2024 "I started to lose consciousness," Vadzim Khizhniakou on the consequences of mold allergy in a prison cell
As part of the Week of Solidarity with Political Prisoners in Belarus, Viasna has prepared a number of videos where former political prisoners share their stories about sub-standard and untimely medical care in places of detention.
10.05.2024 "Do you like to beat the police? Then we are going to beat you now". Oil worker from Rečyca went to protests for the first time and ended up in a colony
The guards forgot Kanstantsin in a 1 m² cell, and he skipped an ideological lecture for a concert of his favorite band.
16.04.2024 "The investigator turned to the wall and began to cry." The story of a senior citizen who was convicted for participating in protests
Aliaksei asked smugglers to help him escape from Belarus and jumped for joy when he was safe.
