21.09.2020 Viasna activist Marfa Rabkova is political prisoner
Joint statement of the Belarusian human rights community
21.09.2020 Police detain 237 protesters in Sunday March of Justice
According to Viasna’s database, security forces detained 237 people during a series of demonstrations held yesterday across the country. Tens of thousands protested in a dozen cities despite heavy police presence, including water cannons, armored vehicles and other riot gear.
20.09.2020 We stand with Belarus
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18.09.2020 Viasna’s volunteer coordinator arrested on criminal charges
Maryia Rabkova, coordinator of Viasna’s network of volunteers, was detained last evening in Minsk.
18.09.2020 Hands off Marfa, hands off Viasna!
Statement by the Board of the Human Rights Center "Viasna" in connection with the detention of Marfa Rabkova
17.09.2020 12 more persons called political prisoners over "rioting" charges
Joint statement by the human rights organizations of Belarus
17.09.2020 Maryia Kalesnikava faces formal charges
Maryia Kalesnikava, member of the presidium of the Coordination Council and former campaign manager of presidential nominee Viktar Babaryka, has been officially charged under Part 3 of Art. 361 of the Criminal Code (calls for actions aimed at harming the national security of the Republic of Belarus committed with the use of the media and the Internet).
16.09.2020 Torture is back: Traumatic brain injury, cerebral hemorrhage, nasal fracture
The story of a student who was beaten in a bus without license plates and got to hospital with multiple injuries
14.09.2020 “We will shoot you and you will never be found.” Survivor stories
18-year-old Uladzimir Pahartsau was detained at about 6 pm on August 10 when he was returning home and got off a trolleybus near the Frunzienskaja metro station in Minsk. Two riot policemen approached him and said they wanted to check his ID. Uladzimir says that he was not beaten so hard compared to other detainees, because he was chosen to give an interview to a state TV channel about the “coordinators of the protests.”
14.09.2020 Over 500 detained in Sunday protests across Belarus
Over five hundred protesters were detained yesterday in various cities of Belarus, according to the Ministry of Internal Affairs. Viasna knows the names of 436 persons who attended another event in a series of weekly demonstrations.
12.09.2020 Human rights organisations call for immediate release of detained lawyers
Open statement in connection with the detention of Belarusian lawyers Ilya Salei and Maksim Znak
11.09.2020 Four facing criminal charges over September 6 protest
The Investigative Committee has launched a criminal investigation into alleged “breach of peace” during a major protest held in Minsk on September 6.
11.09.2020 “People were screaming every night.” Survivor stories
A Minsk resident was detained on August 9 and left the Center for the Confinement of Offenders on the morning of August 12. All this time he, like the other detainees, was deprived of food. Forty people were held in a six-men cell, and riot police insulted and beat people at night.
10.09.2020 Kalesnikava, Znak and Salei are new political prisoners
Joint statement of Belarusian human rights organizations
09.09.2020 Kalesnikava arrested on power grab charges
Maryia Kalesnikava, one of the leaders of the opposition Coordination Council, is facing charges under Part 3, Art. 361 of the Criminal Code ("public calls for the seizure of state power, or forcible change of the constitutional order of the Republic of Belarus"), according to her lawyer Liudmila Kazak.
