News on the topic: administrative prosecution
18.01.2022 Ales Kaputski sentenced to another 15 days of administrative imprisonment
The human rights defender was supposed to be released on January 16, 2021, but was again sentenced to 15 days of arrest.
30.12.2021 Human rights defenders call to release three new political prisoners
Joint statement by the Belarusian human rights community
08.12.2021 Ruslan Bahdanouski: “Head of the detention center was threatening to rape me with a baton”
A taxi driver Ruslan Bahdanouski left Belarus after serving a 30-day imprisonment and told “Viasna” about the unbearable detention conditions and torture.
03.12.2021 Political persecution in Belarus on December, 2-3
With the referendum coming up, repressions against Belarusians are strengthening: people are being detained, searched and intimidated in other ways.
22.11.2021 Man with Parkinson’s and brain pacemaker beaten and imprisoned in Babrujsk
There’s a high risk that if the neurostimulator in his head stops working, he might just die.
11.11.2021 Couple released after over 100 days in dire conditions
Anastasiya Krupenich-Kandratsiyeva and her husband Siarhei Krupenich were released on November 5, after spending nearly four months in a detention facility in Minsk. The couple left Belarus shortly after release.
12.10.2021 Siarhei Krupenich and Anastasiya Krupenich-Kandratsiyeva are political prisoners
Joint statement by representatives of the Belarusian human rights community
12.10.2021 Nearly 100 days in prison: Husband and wife convicted for seventh time over “extremist content” in private messages
On October 11, Siarhei Krupenich and Anastasiya Krupenich-Kandratsiyeva, a young couple in Minsk, were sentenced to 15 and 14 days of “administrative imprisonment” for exchanging “extremist content” in a private conversation on the Telegram messaging app.
22.04.2021 Viasna activist Aliaksandr Vaitseshyk walks free after 8 days in jail
Viasna human rights activist Aliaksandr Vaitseshyk was sentenced to 15 days but walked free early after a successful appeal hearing.
19.04.2021 Viasna issues new report on protest-related administrative cases
Viasna’s lawyers and analysts have prepared and published a report entitled “Politically Motivated Administrative Proceedings: Standards and Reality in Contemporary Belarus”.
15.04.2021 Viasna human rights activist Aliaksandr Vaitseshyk jailed in Baranavičy, goes on hunger strike
Aliaksandr Vaitseshyk, activist of the Human Rights Center “Viasna” in Baranavičy, was sentenced to 15 days in prison. However, it is still unknown what charges he faced.
18.02.2021 Viasna human rights defender Dzmitry Salauyou sentenced to 12 days in prison
Dzmitry Salauyou, human rights defender and member of the Board of the Human Rights Center “Viasna”, was sentenced today to 12 days of administrative detention, after Judge Anzhalika Kazlova of the Minsk District Court found him guilty of “illegal picketing” (Art. 23.34 of the Administrative Code).
26.01.2021 Political prisoner Yan Salanovich released
Yan Salanovich, a former university student and employee of the KGB’s research and technology center, has been released after spending 87 days in detention. The authorities failed to provide explanation for the unexpected decision.
09.12.2020 New report on post-election protests presented in Minsk. Full English text
A coalition of Belarusian human rights defenders presented today a report entitled “Belarus. August 2020: “Justice” for Protesters.” It highlights violations of the standards of a fair trial after tens of thousands of peaceful demonstrators protested the rigged presidential election and thousands were detained en masse and were convicted in August 2020.
01.12.2020 Immediately release political prisoner Yan Salanovich!
Joint statement by the human rights organizations of Belarus
