04.01.2024 Human Rights Situation in Belarus: December 2023
The authorities continue to persecute dissidents and political opponents, instigating a climate of terror and limiting rights and freedoms to the maximum extent possible.
03.01.2024 Former serviceman Pavel Kuchynski was sentenced to 19 years of imprisonment
Pavel was found guilty under seven criminal articles: "treason to the state", "act of terrorism", "creation of an organization for carrying out terrorist activities or participation in it" among others.
03.01.2024 Lack of air, overcrowded cells, night with light. What Belarusians reported during the documentation in 2023
Human rights activists spoke about the specifics of documenting in 2023.
03.01.2024 The statement on the recognition of 14 people as political prisoners
Joint statement by the Belarusian human rights community
29.12.2023 Elections* 2024. Analytical report on the formation of territorial and district election commissions
The expert election*1 2024 observation mission was organized by the Belarusian Helsinki Committee and the Viasna Human Rights Center as part of the "Human Rights Defenders for Free Elections" campaign. The mission collects and analyzes information about the election campaign based on open sources and messages from voters from Belarus.
28.12.2023 "They didn't replace us, they just didn't hire anyone instead." Labor contract as a method of repression
Two teachers from one Belarusian university told Viasna how they were dismissed when their contracts were not renewed and how they were denied the right to a profession.
26.12.2023 The statement on the recognition of 15 people as political prisoners
Joint statement by the Belarusian human rights community
22.12.2023 Viasna received the UN Human Rights Prize for 2023
This year, it was awarded to five winners.
22.12.2023 "We need to check how well Viasna works." A former observer of the 2020 elections spoke about his detention by the KGB
Last week, employees of the State Security Committee (KGB) conducted numerous searches and inspections of former independent observers of the 2020 presidential elections.
22.12.2023 What happened to political prisoners from December 13 to 21
Viasna provides a weekly overview of the latest news on political prisoners.
22.12.2023 International legal team for Ales Bialiatski files petition with UN working group on arbitrary detention
Legal experts demand the release of Nobel Peace Prize laureate Ales Bialiatski.
21.12.2023 The statement on the recognition of 6 people as political prisoners
We, representatives of the human rights community of Belarus, once again note that politically motivated criminal prosecution is used by the authorities to suppress public and political activity, dissent, and anti-war protests.
21.12.2023 The statement on the recognition of 16 people as political prisoners
Statement by the human rights community of Belarus
21.12.2023 "It is becoming more important both today and for the future," human rights activists of Viasna talk of the book with letters from female political prisoners
Viasna human rights defenders, who participated in the collection of materials for the book, spoke about its importance.
20.12.2023 Wake-up time is 5 a.m. in a concrete cell, presumably in solitary confinement: these are conditions in which Ales Bialiatski is being held
Radio Svaboda has found out information about the attitude towards political prisoners in the Gorki penal colony and the certain environment that the local administration creates.
