News on the topic: criminal prosecution
03.02.2022 HRD's call to release another 15 political prisoners and decriminalize defamation offenses
Joint statement by the Belarusian human rights community
01.02.2022 HRD's call to release another 17 political prisoners and stop political repression in the country
Joint statement by the Belarusian human rights community
31.01.2022 #FreeViasna: Weekly news digest on Viasna’s imprisoned human rights defenders
Latest news about imprisoned Viasna members from January 24 to 30
31.01.2022 Six political prisoners in the “hay bale case” sentenced to prison. Security forces painted swastika on the detainees
On January 31, the Staŭbcy District Court pronounced verdicts to seven political prisoners in the "painted hay bale case"
28.01.2022 The Clooney Foundation for Justice publishes a report on the trial of Viktar Babaryka
The lawers concluded that the fair trial standards for the former presidential nominee were violated
28.01.2022 Four political prisoners accused of hacking the government computer system sentenced to 3,5 to 6,5 years
The case was considered behind the closed doors
27.01.2022 12 people recognized as political prisoners
HRDs demand the decriminalization of defamatory offenses and the abolition of liability for insulting the state, state symbols, and officials
26.01.2022 The Supreme Court upheld the sentence of political prisoner Mikalai Dziadok
He will be transported to a penal colony to serve his five-year sentence.
25.01.2022 Seven more political prisoners in Belarus
Statement by the human rights community of Belarus
24.01.2022 #FreeViasna: Weekly news digest on Viasna’s imprisoned human rights defenders
Latest news about imprisoned Viasna members
24.01.2022 Aliaksandr Vasilevich’s trial to be held in private
The trial in the case of the political prisoner was closed “in the interest of protecting state secrets and other secrets protected by law”
21.01.2022 Neurologist sentenced to four years in a penal colony stated about the beatings at the trial
On January 21, the Lieninski District Court of Hrodna passed a verdict in the criminal case against political prisoner Aliaksandr Tsialeha.
19.01.2022 Sport journalist and football player Aliaksandr Ivulin sentenced to jail
He was found guilty in a criminal case and sentenced to two years in a general-security penal colony.
19.01.2022 Ales Kaputski recognised as a political prisoner
Joint statement by the Belarusian human rights community
17.01.2022 #FreeViasna: Weekly news digest on Viasna’s imprisoned human rights defender
Latest news about imprisoned Viasna members
