23.01.2012 Experts release report on freedom of association in 2011

On 23 January, experts of the Assembly of Pro-Democratic NGOs and the Center for Legal Transformation presented the results of monitoring of the situation with non-governmental organizations and freedom of association in Belarus in 2011.

23.01.2012 Human Rights Watch: Belarus has an unprecedented level of repressions

This is stated in the annual report of the human rights organization.

23.12.2011 FIDH: "Belarus: Human rights situation at its worst a year after elections"

FIDH and its member organisation HRC Viasna strongly condemn the ever intensifying repression of independent voices in Belarus. Political liberties in the country have strongly deteriorated since the presidential elections of 19 December 2010 cultivating a climate of fear.

21.12.2011 US expands sanctions against Minsk

The House of Representatives of the United States has announced about news sanctions against Belarus.

A list of officials subject to visa sanctions was expanded and financial restrictions were imposed on the country’s political leaders and security service chiefs.

21.12.2011 UN General Assembly adopts Declaration on Human Rights Education and Training

New York, 19 December 2011 -- This morning, the United Nations General Assembly in New York adopted the Declaration on Human Rights Education and Training. This landmark document recognises the right of every one of the planet's seven billion people to have access to human rights education, a lifelong process involving all ages, all parts of society, and every kind of education, formal and informal.

16.12.2011 U.S. Senate approves "Democracy and Human Rights Act in Belarus"

The draft bill prescribes support of democracy and human rights in our country.

07.12.2011 Brest authorities ban 10 December rally

The official reason for the ban is that some “mournful event will take place in the park of soldiers-internationalists with participation of a delegation from Nizhniy Novgorod”.

11.11.2011 Observatory for the Protection of Human Rights Defenders asked to stop defamation of Ales Bialiatski

The Observatory for the Protection of Human Rights Defenders, a joint programme of the International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH) and the World Organisation Against Torture (OMCT), has received new information and requests your intervention in the following situation in Belarus.

02.11.2011 Trial of Belarus Human Rights Defender Ales Bialiatski Opens Today

Front Line Defenders Deputy Director Unable to Enter Country to Visit Other HRDs

04.10.2011 Foreign experience is inapplicable for Brest authorities

Brest activists of political parties received an answer to their collective appeal to the deputies of the House of Representatives, which dealt with improving the law on mass events.

04.10.2011 Homel: provincial offenders can spend 80-200 days in remand prisons

On 2 October Andrei Tsianiuta and Dzmitry Shauchenka were released from jail after serving 15 and 10 days of arrest respectively. Dzmitry Tsianiuta was punished for handing out leaflets with invitations to a “silent protest” action, and Andrei Tsianiuta – for leaflets inviting people to take part in the People’s Assembly on 8 October.

30.09.2011 EU leaders issue declaration condemning Belarus for its "deteriorating" human rights record

The leaders of the European Union’s member countries issued a declaration condemning Belarus for its "deteriorating" record on human rights and rule of law as a result of the September 29-30 EU Eastern Partnership summit in Warsaw after the delegations of five post-Soviet nations participating in the Eastern Partnership – Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Moldova and Ukraine – had spoken out against including a paragraph to this effect in the summit’s joint declaration.

26.09.2011 UN Human Rights Council hears report on situation in Belarus

The UN Human Rights Council has considered the interim report on the situation of political prisoners, human rights defenders, journalists and lawyers following the 19 December 2010 presidential election in Belarus.

18.07.2011 OSCE Moscow Mechanism report on Belarus

On 16 June 2011, Emmanuel Decaux, OSCE Moscow Mechanism rapporteur, presented to the OSCE Permanent Council today his report about the human rights situation and implementation of OSCE commitments in Belarus since the December 2010 presidential election.

30.06.2011 FIDH presents its report on the restrictions to the political and civil rights of citizens of Belarus after the 2010 presidential elections at press conference in Minsk

Today, in Minsk, FIDH representatives hold a press conference to present the fact-finding mission report on the situation in Belarus. Participants in the Mission collected dozens of witness testimonies from candidates for the presidency of Belarus and representatives from campaign headquarters for presidential candidates, who had been freed from detention by that time, relatives of those arrested, attorneys, members of human rights organizations, journalists, and representatives of European diplomatic missions.