News on the topic: political persecution
01.12.2022 Police arrests people for commenting on Uladzimir Makei's death
At least three people are detained, and the police are after dozens more.
22.11.2022 What happened to political prisoners on 14-20 November
Last week, the political prisoner count increased by 34 people and hit 1451 names.
21.10.2022 Exiled members of Coordinating Council to be tried in absentia
Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya and her team accused of ‘conspiracy to seize power in an unconstitutional way.’
07.09.2022 Viasna digest: 16 political prisoners released in August. Most of them fully served their terms
Viasna recalls the released political prisoners' cases and sentences.
26.08.2022 UN Special Rapporteur on Belarus report: “Hostile environment is used as a powerful tool to compel people to leave”
The UN website has published the report of the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Belarus, Anaïs Marin.
09.08.2022 Two years after the election fraud in numbers
August 9, 2020, is a point of no return in the history of modern Belarus
27.05.2022 Criminal prosecution in Belarus: legal system completely reoriented towards repression
Viasna human rights defenders prepared a report “Criminal prosecution for political reasons. Belarus 2021–2022”
25.05.2022 KGB adds Maryia Kalesnikava and Maksim Znak to ‘terrorists’ list
The KGB updated the list of ‘terrorists’ with 15 new people, including Viktar Babaryka's associates
17.05.2022 Fastest trial of ‘dancing protesters’: two defendants convicted in less than an hour
On May 17, the Brest court considered the case of the next defendants in the ‘round dance case’
14.05.2022 Politically motivated administrative prosecution in April: Summary
Repression in Belarus has increased since the beginning of the war in Ukraine. All over the country, law enforcement officers conduct searches, arrests, and interrogations on a daily basis.
13.05.2022 #FactsOfRepression: Two years of state terror in Belarus
Two years after the unprecedented crackdown on dissidents in Belarus, Libereco presents a graphic report on the situation of the more than 1100 political prisoners in the neighboring country of the EU
09.04.2022 Crackdown on antiwar protests in Belarus cities and small towns
Belarusians protesting against the war in which the territory of Belarus is involved against their will
31.03.2022 Rail War: what we know about “Rail guerillas”
Belarusians are disrupting the railway network to slow down and prevent the movement of Russian military equipment into Ukraine
22.03.2022 'They beat him slightly, striking him in body and in face': another account on ill-treatment of detained protesters
Witness talks about torture and conditions in detention centers of Minsk and Žodzina
17.03.2022 Arrested protester: “He took woman out into corridor and banged her head against wall”
Eyewitness account of anti-war protesters' detention condition
