News on the topic: Amnesty International
12.07.2024 Amnesty International has called for the release of Ales Bialiatski amid reports of his deteriorating health
"The prolonged detention of Ales and his colleagues is nothing more than a blatant abuse of the criminal justice system aimed at suffocating dissent and suppressing civil society in Belarus."
25.05.2022 Amnesty International: Belarus remains the only country in Europe carrying out executions
Annual review of the death penalty covers the judicial use of the death penalty for the period January to December 2021
20.05.2022 Amnesty International: New death penalty law is the ultimate attack on human rights
Belarusian authorities have adopted a new law which introduces the death penalty for “attempts to carry out acts of terrorism.”
31.03.2022 Amnesty International on Belarus: Torture and other ill-treatment endemic and committed with impunity
Amnesty International presented its annual report, Amnesty International Report 2021/22: The state of the world's human rights.
02.12.2021 Belarus: Drop myriad charges against human rights defender Marfa Rabkova
“Marfa Rabkova’s case epitomizes the horrors currently faced by human rights defenders and the wider civil society in Belarus."
17.11.2021 Amnesty International: Write to demand urgent medical assistance for Marfa Rabkova
Despite worrying symptoms and a deterioration of her health, the prison authorities have been denying her requests for medical care for months, including urgent dental treatment.
07.09.2021 Human rights defenders to launch international campaign #FreeViasna
Several key Belarusian and international human rights organizations announced plans to launch an international campaign of solidarity entitled #FreeViasna, following a coordination meeting held in Vilnius on September 6-7.
09.08.2021 No justice in sight for scores of human rights violations survivors one year on from disputed election
Amnesty International has released a public statement addressing the ongoing crackdown on the dissent in Belarus.
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.
15.07.2021 Amnesty International: Sweeping crackdown on civil society organizations must be stopped
Marie Struthers, Amnesty International’s Director for Eastern Europe and Central Asia, reacted to an unprecedented wave of searches and detentions targeting more than a dozen civil society organizations in Belarus.
25.06.2021 Amnesty International calls transfer of Raman Pratasevich and Sofia Sapega to house arrest "cynical trick" of Belarus' regime
Marie Struthers commented on the play of the Belarusian authorities with political prisoners
17.06.2021 Medical workers witnessing painful human toll of reprisals, paying high personal price
Belarusian health workers who participated in anti-government demonstrations or spoke out against official accounts of protesters’ deaths and injuries, are facing brutal reprisals from the authorities, Amnesty International said today in a new briefing.
05.06.2021 Raman Pratasevich forced televised ‘confession’ amounts to ill-treatment, Amnesty International said
He was plainly on the edge of breaking down, in tears and with visible wounds on his wrists, as he was forced to incriminate himself and praise his captors. It was a televised coercion.
27.05.2021 Amnesty International launches urgent action to help Raman Pratasevich
Amnesty International is launching an Urgent Action following the televised self-incriminating statement by Raman Pratasevich, co-founder and former editor of the NEXTA Telegram-channel, in which he appears distraught and injured.
24.05.2021 Amnesty International: Journalist apprehended in Minsk airport after emergency landing must be released immediately
The European Union and the rest of the world must react without delay and call for the immediate release of Raman Pratasevich.
