29.07.2021 Purge of human rights organizations and other civic groups forces them to go underground or in exile
In July 2021, the Belarusian authorities liquidated or started the liquidation process of more than 80 civic organisations.
28.07.2021 Human rights organizations insist on release of three new political prisoners
Joint statement by representatives of the Belarusian human rights community
27.07.2021 Human rights organizations call to release six persons convicted of defamation offenses
Joint statement by representatives of the Belarusian human rights community
26.07.2021 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.
26.07.2021 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.
23.07.2021 Stop demolition of Belarus’s civil society!
In recent days, the authorities have taken steps to close numerous down civil society organizations.
23.07.2021 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.
22.07.2021 8 new names on list of political prisoners
Joint statement by the Belarusian human rights community
22.07.2021 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.
22.07.2021 We demand retrials and release of three more political prisoners
Joint statement of the Belarusian human rights community
21.07.2021 #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
20.07.2021 Detained journalists of Belsat TV and RFE/RL, Tatiana Kouzina and Valeryia Kastsiuhova are new political prisoners
Joint statement by representatives of the Belarusian human rights community
20.07.2021 ENEMO calls to release Viasna human rights defenders
Statement by the European Network of Election Monitoring Organizations (ENEMO)
19.07.2021 9 new names on list of political prisoners
Joint statement by representatives of the Belarusian human rights community
19.07.2021 Four protesters sentenced to prison terms in Minsk
Political prisoners Yan Falkin, Uladzislau Barysau and Mikita Litvinenko, together with the fourth defendant, Uladzimir Matsiukh, were sentenced to three and a half to five years in a medium-security prison.
