15.02.2021 Observatory for the Protection of Human Rights Defenders condemns new charges against Viasna coordinator Marfa Rabkova
The Observatory has been informed about the new criminal charges against Maria (a.k.a Marfa) Rabkova, Coordinator of volunteer services at the Human Rights Center “Viasna”.
12.02.2021 Hands off Marfa, hands off Viasna, hands off human rights defenders!
Statement by the Board of the Human Rights Center "Viasna"
12.02.2021 #WeStandBYyou: New godparents for Belarusian political prisoners
Belarusian political prisoners Yan Falkin, Iryna Shchasnaya, Tsimur Ryzapur, Viktoryia Hrankouskaya, Dzmitry Zheburtovich and Pavel Drozd will be sponsored by German and British MPs.
12.02.2021 Viasna’s Marfa Rabkova faces new charges
On February 11, Marfa Rabkova, coordinator of Viasna’s volunteer network, faced new criminal charges of “inciting social hostility to the government by a group of unidentified individuals” (Part 3 of Art. 130) and “involvement in a criminal organization” (Part 2 of Art. 285 of the Criminal Code).
11.02.2021 Open letter: Swiss National Councillors and Councillors of States demand the release of Natallia Hersche
In an open letter 86 Swiss Members of Parliament address the Belarusian Foreign Minister Makei and demand the release of Natallia Hersche and more than 240 other political prisoners in Belarus.
10.02.2021 Political prisoner Raman Kananovich sentenced to 4 years in prison
Judge Tatsiana Shotsik of the Lieninski District Court of Minsk has sentenced political prisoner Raman Kananovich to four years in a medium-security penal colony, finding the 24-year-old programmer guilty under part 2 of Art. 293 of the Criminal Code.
10.02.2021 Seven convicts in defamation and flag desecration trials called political prisoners
Joint statement by the Belarusian human rights community
09.02.2021 Human rights defenders insist on retrials for 11 more political prisoners
Joint statement of the Belarusian human rights community
09.02.2021 Political prisoner Artsiom Sauchuk sentenced to 4 years in prison
Judge Yuliya Blizniuk of the Frunzienski District Court of Minsk has sentenced political prisoner Artsiom Sauchuk to 4 years in a medium-security penal colony, finding him guilty under Part 2 of Art. 293 of the Criminal Code.
09.02.2021 Observatory for the Protection of Human Rights Defenders condemns arbitrary detention and judicial harassment of Leanid Sudalenka and Tatsiana Lasitsa
The Observatory urges the Belarusian authorities to immediately and unconditionally release Leanid Sudalenka, Tatsiana Lasitsa, Maria Rabkova and all other human rights defenders arbitrarily detained, and to end all acts of harassment against them.
08.02.2021 Convicted blogger Pavel Spiryn is political prisoner
Joint statement by the Belarusian human rights organizations
08.02.2021 To clamp down on dissent the authorities are targeting children
The Belarusian authorities are resorting to threats, harassment and prosecution of children in an increasingly desperate attempt to suppress dissent, Amnesty International said ahead of the six-month anniversary on 9 February of the start of protests in the country.
06.02.2021 More Irish MPs join #WeStandBYyou solidarity campaign
As part of the solidarity campaign #WeStandBYyou of Libereco, Mary Seery Kearney, (Irish Upper House, Fine Gael), Ivana Bacik (Irish Upper House, Labour Party) and Malcolm Byrne (Irish Upper House, Fianna Fáil) have taken over a godparenthood for Belarusian political prisoners Kim Samusenka, Aliaksandr Tsiareshka und Uladzislau Hulis.
06.02.2021 Stop prosecution of human rights defenders!
Statement of the Belarusian National Platform of the Eastern Partnership Civil Society Forum on the persecution of Siarhei Drazdouski and Aleh Hrableuski
05.02.2021 Political prisoner Yauhen Kakhanouski sentenced to 3 ½ years in prison
Political prisoner Yauhen Kakhanouski has been sentenced to three and a half years in a general-security penal colony. Another defendant in the case, Dzmitry Hopta, was sentenced to two years.
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