International Day for Elimination of Violence against Women: 163 women political prisoners in Belarus
In four years, more than 1,450 politically motivated criminal convictions against women have been recorded.
"Sunrise over a swamp": at least 40 people were convicted in Belarus for the red-and-green flag
In total, Belarusians were sentenced to 118 years in a penal colony for "desecrating state symbols."
The statement on the recognition of six people as political prisoners
Statement by the human rights community of Belarus.
Statement on the recognition of journalist Ihar Iliyash as a political prisoner
Joint statement by human rights organizations of Belarus.
112 people convicted in absentia in Belarus, three of them twice
Viasna reports the cases of those three people.
Vietnam extradited Vasil Verameichyk, a volunteer of the Kalinoŭski Regiment, to Belarus
This was reported by propagandists in an ONT film about volunteers fighting on the side of Ukraine.
The statement on the recognition of 13 people as political prisoners
Joint statement by the Belarusian human rights community
The New York City Bar Association statement on human rights violations in Belarus
The New York City Bar Association expresses grave concern over ongoing human rights abuses in Belarus, particularly the systematic mistreatment of political prisoners under the regime of Aliaksandr Lukashenka.
Dzmitry Shlethauer, a 22-year-old political prisoner, died in Mahilioŭ penal colony No. 15 (updated)
The exact cause of death is unknown.
31 political prisoners released by pardon on November 7 (updated)
On November 7 it became known that 31 more political prisoners were pardoned in Belarus. This was reported by the official Telegram channel of Aliaksandr Lukashenka.
New comprehensive report explores how Belarusian survivors of torture perceive justice
Joint publication by Viasna Human Rights Group and the International Committee for Investigation of Torture in Belarus
At least 1,213 sentenced in administrative cases: repression intensifies in Belarus ahead of presidential elections
Viasna reports how the authorities are "cleansing" the country of "extremists" before the 2025 elections.
Death penalty
- October 10 is World Day against the Death Penalty
- New arguments in favor of abolishing the death penalty: threats and benefits for the Lukashenka regime
- Rico Krieger returns to Germany after Belarusian death sentence
- Lukashenka pardoned German Rico Krieger, sentenced to death (updated)
- The Rico Krieger case: we have collected everything that is known (updated)
- FIDH, Viasna, and other organizations call on Belarus to stop the execution of Rico Krieger
- "An exceptional case." The coordinator of the campaign "Human Rights Defenders against the Death Penalty" spoke about the sentence of Rico Krieger
- Employee of the German Red Cross sentenced to death in Belarus
- 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
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