23.03.2023 Journalists Semchanka and Mazheika sentenced to 3 years in prison for inciting enmity
On March 23, in separate hearings, Minsk Municipal Court convicted a former All-national TV anchor and Komsomolskaya Pravda correspondent of "inciting enmity" against public officials.
23.03.2023 Ales Bialitski's wife Natalia Pinchuk to give public talks in Vilnius and Warsaw
We invite you to attend these events.
21.03.2023 Viasna member Natallia Satsunkevich: “What’s going on in Belarus is not only about my country… we are all connected.”
Right Livelihood talked to Natallia shortly after the final verdict in the Viasna case.
20.03.2023 Political prisoner Ihar Losik attempted suicide in colony
He is now in the medical unit.
17.03.2023 OHCHR report on Belarus: At least 100,000 people fled abroad after the 2020 presidential election
Some of the human rights violations in Belarus amount to crimes against humanity.
17.03.2023 TUT.BY leadership gets 12 years in jail
Maryna Zolatava and Liudmila Chekina were convicted in a closed trial.
17.03.2023 Political experts receive 10 years in jail
Valeryia Kastsiuhova and Tatsiana Kuzina convicted in Minak Municipal court
17.03.2023 Acvitists still work in climate of fear 25 years after UN Declaration on Human Rights Defenders
Right Livelihood raised concern during the 52nd session of the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva.
16.03.2023 Rabkova's cellmate: “Marfa needs biopsy to see if it's benign or something worse”
Some hope remains that the activist will get help in the penal colony after the transfer.
15.03.2023 List of political prisoners updated with 20 new names
Joint statement by the Belarusian human rights community.
15.03.2023 Members of the Swiss National Council take on a godparenthood for Mikalai Biblis, Andrei Budai and Iryna Abdukeryna
Libereco solidarity campaign #WeStandBYyou continues.
14.03.2023 Coordination council member and an entrepreneur receive jail terms for 2020 protests
Aksana Zaretskaya and Bahdan Karavets were sentenced to 18 and 24 months of imprisonment despite mitigating circumstances.
14.03.2023 Out of jail! In February, 20 political prisoners were released
Viasna recalls their cases.
10.03.2023 Lawtrend review: Freedom of association and legal environment for Belarusian CSOs in 2022
Lawtrend reviewed the situation with freedom of association in Belarus in 2022.
09.03.2023 "Ales turned to the spectators and smiled very widely and heartily"
One of the spectators described the last court session in the Viasna case and the human rights defenders’ reaction to the verdict. Here is his monologue.