News on the topic: criminal prosecution
10.01.2023 Trial against Viasna leadership: Day 3
Uladzimir Labkovich asks for medical help. Rights defenders reiterate their demands to take off the handcuffs.
09.01.2023 Political prisoners in Belarus in 2022. Infographics
In 2022, arrests, torture, and criminal proceedings on political grounds against Belarusians continued. Viasna shares figures on political prisoners for 2022.
06.01.2023 Trial against Viasna leadership: Day 2
The court proceeds with questioning independent journalists.
06.01.2023 Rights defenders demand the release independent trade union leaders
Trade union leaders were sentenced in political retaliation for their peaceful actions to protect the Belarusian workers.
06.01.2023 Criminal prosecution in 2022: 1,242 persons convicted on political grounds
Belarusian judicial system has been actively criminalizing citizens for political reasons in 2022.
05.01.2023 Trial against Viasna leadership: Day 1
Human rights defenders demand the trial in the Belarusian language and plead not guilty.
05.01.2023 Viasna members go on trial
Among them Nobel Peace Prize laureate Ales Bialitski
03.01.2023 In December, 55 people criminally convicted in political cases
All of them received custodial and freedom-restricting sentences.
30.12.2022 Statement on recognition of seven political prisoners
Joint statement of the human rights community of Belarus
30.12.2022 Tortures continue in detention: the most notable cases in 2022
Torture and detention in inhumane conditions have been an integral part of the political persecution in Belarus since August 2020. We recall the most notorious torture cases that leaked out in 2022.
23.12.2022 Feliks Zhylinski and Andrei Navakouski recognized as political prisoners
Joint statement by the Belarusian human rights community
23.12.2022 #FreeViasna: Latest news about jailed Viasna human rights defenders
Bilalitski's wife received the Nobel Peace Prize award for him, the Viasna trial date is determined, and other news about jailed rights defenders.
22.12.2022 Rights defenders learn about another eight political prisoners
Statement by the human rights community of Belarus.
22.12.2022 Viasna trial to begin on January 5
Nobel Peace Prize laureate Ales Bialiatski, Valiantsin Stefanovic, and Uladzimir Labkovich are in the dock. Zmitser Salauyou will be tried in absentia.
21.12.2022 What happened to political prisoners on December 12–18
Political persecution in Belarus continues.
