News on the topic: administrative prosecution
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
22.03.2022 'They beat him slightly, striking him in body and in face': another account on ill-treatment of detained protesters
Witness talks about torture and conditions in detention centers of Minsk and Žodzina
17.03.2022 Arrested protester: “He took woman out into corridor and banged her head against wall”
Eyewitness account of anti-war protesters' detention condition
15.03.2022 Heads beaten and ribs broken: how police treats anti-war protesters in Minsk
Former detainee talks about his arrest and conditions in prison
02.03.2022 230 people detained after anti-war and anti-referendum protests
People are held in detention centers in inhumane conditions
19.02.2022 Wave of searches in open penitentiaries
KGB officers arrested, searched, and interrogated convicts and former convicts serving their sentences in open penitentiaries
17.02.2022 Political prisoner Ales Kaputski released after 60 days of arrest
The authorities have repeatedly used repeated sentencing against him for the purpose of politically motivated pressure
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.