The case of Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya's analysts has been sent to the Supreme Court
According to the case materials, all 20 analysts are accused of committing crimes of an extremist nature in connection with the campaign for the presidential elections, as well as in the post-electoral period.
"They are trying to do everything to wipe the smile off your face forever"
A former political prisoner told Viasna about the naked search, voting in the elections in Žodzina prison, and the move from Valadarka to Kaliadzičy.
Ukrainians, Poles, Russians: which foreign citizens are in Belarusian prisons for political reasons (updated)
Viasna reports which foreign citizens are being persecuted in Belarus for political reasons.
The Chernobyl Way in Warsaw (photo)
Belarusians paid tribute to the victims of the Chernobyl accident and protested against Lukashenka's nuclear policy.
From an hour of mourning and silence to 35 years of processions. How the Chernobyl Way began
Since then, the Chernobyl Way has always been a reason for repression from the authorities.
Almost a thousand people were detained in the first three months of 2024 in Belarus
Viasna human rights activists have calculated the total number of detentions for the first quarter of 2024.
"If you don't sign it, then your wife will go to prison, and your kids will be taken away by the children's services." Serhii Melyanets spoke about his detention
Once safe, Serhii told Viasna his story of persecution.
"They break their own rules of special proceedings." The case against Leanid Sudalenka was transferred to the court
It is known that there are two volumes of the case materials, but the essence of the accusation is still unknown.
"Until you exit the gate, you don't know if they will detain you for more days or if there's already a criminal case," a former prisoner
A Minsk resident told Viasna about the difference between a regular cell and a political punishment cell in the Center for Isolation of Offenders at Akrescina and his cellmates at the end of January 2024.
The statement on the recognition of 16 people as political prisoners
Joint statement by the Belarusian human rights community
Three MPs from Switzerland and the Netherlands take on godparenthood for political prisoners in Belarus
As part of #WeStandBYyou campaign, Samira Marti (Sozialdemokratische Partei der Schweiz, Switzerland), Geert Gabriëls and Esmah Lahlah (both GroenLinks-PvdA, Netherlands) are taking on godparenthood for Anzhela Sikorskaya, Dzianis Dzemidovich and Valeryia Kastsiuhova.
Political prisoner list in Belarus expanded by 11 names
Joint statement by the Belarusian human rights community
Death penalty
- The right to life was violated. The UN Human Rights Committee responded to the Belarusian authorities on Berazhny and Hershankou executed in 2018
- Death sentence passed in Sluck
- The prosecutor requested the death penalty for a man accused of murder
- "I've always been against it." The leader of the band Mashina Vremeni joined the campaign Human Rights Defenders against the Death Penalty in Belarus
- We invite you to an event in Białystok for the International Day against the Death Penalty
- Protects everyone’s right to life: UN Special Rapporteurs addressed Belarusian authorities
- Human rights defenders strongly protest against expansion of the death penalty in Belarus
- Condemned prisoner's death date revealed more than a year after the execution
- Andrei Paluda: “Authorities still consider the death penalty as a deterrent”
- Tsikhanouskaya: “Activists live in fear of being shot dead”
- “It is all the more urgent to come together”: World Congress Against the Death Penalty starts
- Andrei Paluda: “I hope there will be no more death sentences”
- The UN HRC found a violation of the rights of the mother of executed Pavel Selyun
- Amnesty International: Belarus remains the only country in Europe carrying out executions
- State Department: The perpetrators of human rights abuses will be held to account
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