05.09.2023 Human Rights Situation in Belarus: August 2023
On August 31, the Homieĺ Regional Court passed a harsh sentence on journalist and cultural activist Larysa Shchyrakova.
05.08.2023 Human Rights Situation in Belarus: July 2023
On July 11, Belarusian artist and political prisoner Ales Pushkin died in the intensive care unit of a hospital in Hrodna.
04.07.2023 Human Rights Situation in Belarus: June 2023
Human rights defender Nasta Loika was sentenced to seven years in prison on arbitrary politically motivated charges.
02.06.2023 Human Rights Situation in Belarus: May 2023
The negation of human rights, suppression of freedoms and large-scale repressions are still characteristic of the domestic policy of the Belarusian authorities.
05.05.2023 Human Rights Situation in Belarus: April 2023
The domestic policies of the Belarusian authorities are still largely based on the denial of human rights, suppression of freedoms and nation-wide repression.
04.04.2023 Human Rights Situation in Belarus: March 2023
The profound human rights crisis continues to shape the political and economic environment in Belarus; in March, the authorities continued to perpetrate large-scale persecution for political reasons.
05.03.2023 Human Rights Situation in Belarus: February 2023
The authorities continued persecuting individuals for political reasons; the persecution of individuals continues under the guise of combating extremism and terrorism.
03.02.2023 Human Rights Situation in Belarus: January 2023
The Lieninski District Court of Minsk started hearing the criminal case of members of the Human Rights Center “Viasna”.
21.01.2023 Human Rights Situation in Belarus in 2022
Analytical review
04.01.2023 Human Rights Situation in Belarus: December 2022
"The whole of Belarus is here in prison now". The Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to Viasna leader Ales Bialiatski. The medal and diploma were received by his wife Natallia Pinchuk, who also gave a Nobel lecture.
03.12.2022 Human Rights Situation in Belarus: November 2022
The profound human rights crisis has spanned across all spheres of public and political life. There were 1,447 political prisoners as of December 1.
02.11.2022 Human Rights Situation in Belarus: October 2022
Ales Bialiatski became one of the three Nobel Peace Prize laureates. Valiantsin Stefanovich was re-elected Vice-President of the International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH).
11.10.2022 Human Rights Situation in Belarus: September 2022
Coordinator of Viasna’s volunteers Marfa Rabkova and volunteer Andrei Chapiuk were sentenced to 15 and 6 years in prison, respectively.
19.09.2022 Human Rights Situation in Belarus: August 2022
It has been two years since the authorities rigged the presidential election of 2020 in favor of Mr. Aliaksandr Lukashenka.
12.08.2022 Human Rights Situation in Belarus: July 2022
July marked a year since Viasna Chairman Ales Bialiatski, Deputy chairman Valiantsin Stefanovich, and lawyer Uladzimir Labkovich were taken in custody on trumped-up charges.
