News on the topic: torture
01.02.2023 Nasta Loika zapped with stun gun for failing to give out her Telegram password
The incident was used to intimidate another detained rights defender.
11.01.2023 “Gas sprayed into ventilation reached us”: Akrescina facilities detention conditions throughout 2022 in detainees own words
Viasna's month-by-month chronicle shows the scale of repression and how the methods of pressure on Belarusians used by law enforcers and authorities have (not) changed throughout 2022.
11.01.2023 Administrative prosecution in 2022: At least 6,380 arrests
Viasna's yearly review of the administrative prosecution on political grounds.
02.01.2023 "The whole floor was covered in my blood." Former detainee speaks of torture
A Minsk resident told Viasna about the two-hour torture and beatings by the officers of the Main Directorate for Combating Organized Crime and Corruption, the nurse's response to his broken finger, and the detention conditions in TDC in July this year.
30.12.2022 Tortures continue in detention: the most notable cases in 2022
Torture and detention in inhumane conditions have been an integral part of the political persecution in Belarus since August 2020. We recall the most notorious torture cases that leaked out in 2022.
14.12.2022 Belarus index on torture: authorities deliberately deepen the human rights crisis
The Civic Solidarity Platform presents its third Index on Torture complete with updated country data for 2022.
28.07.2022 “It was short electric shocks, but at least they didn't hit me!”
A former detainee told us about police torture with a taser, recruiting informants, and almost a month in detention
12.07.2022 “If he didn't like the answer, he hit me with a stick”: Ex-detainee recounts her experience of torture by police
Hanna Morskaya spent 63 days behind bars in inhuman conditions
21.06.2022 Week Against Torture 2022 Program schedule
International Committee for the Investigation of Torture in Belarus together with the Viasna Human Rights Center, Legal Initiative, Belarusian Helsinki Committee, Viasna Volunteer network, Youth Council RADA, initiatives politzek.me and dissidentby invite you to participate in the events of the Week against torture from June 20 to 26
21.06.2022 Dzmitryi Mishakouski: imprisoned despite disability and losing his eyesight in jail
Dzmitryi Mishakouski’s story is one of the many documented by Viasna human rights defenders accounts of torture, cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment
29.04.2022 ‘Welcome to Gestapo’: The arrest of artist Dzmitry Padrez
Former cellmate's account of threats and beatings during the arrest of a political prisoner
26.04.2022 Defiant former investigator beaten in jail
Mikita Starazhenka's cellmate confirmes there were marks of severe beatings on political prisoner
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
01.04.2022 OMCT: prisoners still suffer great risks of COVID-19
OMCT published report “Challenging detention and torture in times of Covid-19”, which collects a large array of creative legal and advocacy strategies employed all around the world
01.04.2022 UN report: Belarus must release political prisoners and investigate human rights violations
UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet presented report “Situation of human rights in Belarus in the run-up to the 2020 presidential election and in its aftermath”
