The UN Committee against Torture will provide the results of a confidential investigation into Belarus
One of the initiators of this investigation was Viasna Human Rights Center in September 2020.
Violation of children's rights through ideology, patriotism, and educational policy: opinion of human rights defenders and analysts
On June 27, the violations of the rights of Belarusian and Ukrainian children in Belarus were discussed at the information center of the Seimas of the Republic of Lithuania.
Belarus hits new low: Five years at the bottom of torture prohibition index in post-Soviet states
The Working Group on the Fight Torture of the Civic Solidarity Platform has released the annual results of measuring the Prohibition of Torture Index in these countries. For the fifth consecutive year, Belarus occupies the lowest ranking position on the list.
"He put a plastic bag over my head and started suffocating me." On the International Day against Torture, we speak about torture in Belarus
Together with the Torture Documentation Department and DIGNITY - Danish Institute against Torture, we talk about examples of torture.
The "cage" in women's penal colonies. What is it, what norms does it violate?
Viasna writes about what it is and what national and international norms such treatment of prisoners violates.
Statement on recognition of Andrzej Yukhnevich as a political prisoner
Joint statement by the Belarusian human rights community.
We demand the rehabilitation of 22 former political prisoners
Joint statement by the Belarusian human rights community
Stage play, quiz, "prison experiment": events of the Week against Torture, June 24–30
June 26 is the UN International Day in Support of Victims of Torture.
The statement on the recognition of 17 people as political prisoners
Joint statement by the Belarusian human rights community
Franak Viachorka was sentenced in absentia to 20 years of imprisonment
The verdict was handed down by judge Valiantsina Ziankevich.
We demand to overturn the verdict against Leanid Sudalenka, to stop court arbitrariness and persecution of human rights defenders
Statement of the Viasna Human Rights Center
The statement on the recognition of 15 people as political prisoners
Joint statement of the human rights coalition
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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