Human rights organizations call to release six persons convicted of defamation offenses
Joint statement by representatives of the Belarusian human rights community
Global letter in solidarity with the Belarusian civil society
161 human rights organisations demand an end to the repression against the Human Rights Center Viasna and all other human rights defenders in Belarus.
Viasna leaders remain in detention
Ales Bialiatski, chairman of the Human Rights Center “Viasna”, Valiantsin Stefanovich, deputy chairman, and Uladzimir Labkovich remain in pre-trial detention in Minsk, nearly two weeks after they were detained together with eight other members of Viasna.
Stop demolition of Belarus’s civil society!
In recent days, the authorities have taken steps to close numerous down civil society organizations.
Yauhen Hovar, Yegor Dudnikov and Aliaksandr Kardziukou 'adopted' by European MPs
As part of Libereco’s #WeStandBYyou solidarity campaign, Gabi Weber (German Bundestag, SPD), Vincent P. Martin (Seanad Éireann, Green Party, Ireland) and Elisabeth Falkhaven (Swedish Riksdag, Green Party) are taking over godparenthood for political prisoners in Belarus.
8 new names on list of political prisoners
Joint statement by the Belarusian human rights community
Help release Viasna human rights defenders!
Ales Bialiatski, Chairman of the Human Rights Centre Viasna, Viasna’s lawyer Uladzimir Labkovich and his partner Nina Labkovich, as well as the Vice Chairman of Viasna, Valiantsin Stefanovich were transferred to pretrial detention on 17 July.
We demand retrials and release of three more political prisoners
Joint statement of the Belarusian human rights community
#WeStandBYyou: New 'godparents' for Belarusian political prisoners
Members of Parliament from Sweden, Germany and Ireland adopt political prisoners Aliaksandr Hubeika, Volha Zalatar and Siarhei Hatskevich
Detained journalists of Belsat TV and RFE/RL, Tatsiana Kuzina and Valeryia Kastsiuhova are new political prisoners
Joint statement by representatives of the Belarusian human rights community
ENEMO calls to release Viasna human rights defenders
Statement by the European Network of Election Monitoring Organizations (ENEMO)
9 new names on list of political prisoners
Joint statement by representatives of the Belarusian human rights community
Death penalty
- EU deplores likely execution of Viktar Paulau
- Death row prisoner Viktar Paulau “most likely executed”, convict’s sister said
- Supreme Court confirms death sentence for Viktar Skrundzik
- Death convicts brothers Kostseu pardoned
- Death penalty 2020: Despite Covid-19, some countries ruthlessly pursued death sentences and executions
- Tamara Chikunova, known anti-death penalty campaigner, dies at 73
- PACE General Rapporteur condemns new death sentence in Belarus
- Man re-sentenced to death after retrial in Sluck
- On World Day against the Death Penalty, EU and CoE call on Belarus to end executions
- FIDH asks Belarus to allow Viasna attend pardon hearing in death penalty case
- Supreme Court quashes death sentence in double murder case
- Amnesty International urges Belarus to stop execution of Kostseu brothers
- Supreme Court confirms death sentence for Kostseu brothers
- Amnesty International: 657 people executed in 2019, Belarus kills at least 2
- Amnesty International calls on Belarus to commute death sentences of Kostseu brothers
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