The Human Rights Center “Viasna”

02.05.2012 Ales Bialiatski may not be amnestied because of new financial claims

Ales Bialiatski, a prominent human rights activist and head of the Human Rights Center "Viasna, reports about deterioration in confinement conditions in prison due to new claims of the Pershamaiski district court of Minsk.

20.03.2012 Belarus must release bodies of convicts executed over Minsk metro bombing

The execution of two men convicted of carrying out a deadly metro bombing last year in Minsk has been condemned by Amnesty International as it called on the Belarus authorities to release the bodies to their families for burial.

01.03.2012 Supreme Court doesn’t respond to review appeals of political prisoners

The activists of the anarchist movement who had been sentenced to prison terms and declared prisoners of conscience, filed review appeals against their verdict.

01.12.2011 Death penalty for two men in Belarus

The two death sentences handed down in Belarus today followed a trial that has failed to meet international fair trial standards, said Amnesty International.

03.11.2011 Belarus activist facing jail over “politically motivated” tax charges

The Belarusian authorities must immediately release a prominent human rights activist and prisoner of conscience who faces up to seven years in jail on “politically motivated” charges of tax evasion, Amnesty International said today.

10.10.2011 World Day Against the Death Penalty:Belarus urged to end executions

Amnesty International activists around the world are coming together on the World Day Against the Death Penalty to demand an end to executions in Belarus, the only country in Europe and the former Soviet Union that still executes.

03.10.2011 Presidential candidate Dzmitry Uss was granted parole

The political prisoner was freed on Lukashenka's pardon decree in the evening of 1 October.

02.09.2011 Lukashenka released 4 political prisoners: more than 20 remain in jail

On 2 September Aliaksandr Lukashenka granted parole to four participants of the peaceful protest action against the rigged presidential election held on 19 December 2010.

12.08.2011 Lukashenka pardons at least 4 mass riot case convicts

On 11 August, Belarusian President Aliaksandr Lukashenka granted pardon to at least 4 persons convicted for alleged involvement in the 19 December 2010 mass riot.

12.08.2011 Belarus must free activist held on tax evasion charges

The Belarusian authorities must release a prominent human rights activist, whose pre-trial detention on charges of "serious tax evasion" is believed to be politically motivated.