06.08.2021 Viasna’s Andrei Paluda leaves Belarus, describes detention conditions as inhuman
Andrei Paluda, human rights defender of the Human Rights Center "Viasna" and coordinator of the campaign “Human Rights Defenders against the Death Penalty in Belarus”, has left Belarus after detention and imminent criminal charges.
05.08.2021 Human rights groups call to release five new political prisoners
Joint statement by the Belarusian human rights community
03.08.2021 Human Rights Situation in Belarus: July 2021
On July 14, three more members of the Human Rights Center “Viasna” were detained on criminal charges: Ales Bialiatski, chairman of the organization, Valiantsin Stefanovich, member of Viasna’s Board and vice-president of the International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH), and Uladzimir Labkovich, lawyer and coordinator of the campaign “Human Rights Defenders for Free Elections”.
31.07.2021 Office for the Rights of Persons with Disabilities leaders released until trial
Siarhei Drazdouski and Aleh Hrableuski, respectively director and legal advisor of the Office for the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, have been released to await their trial under travel restrictions.
30.07.2021 Nearly 4,700 protest-related criminal cases opened since August 2020
4,691 criminal cases related to protests have been launched since the rigged presidential election of August 9, 2020, the Investigative Committee of Belarus said.
30.07.2021 7 new names on list of political prisoners
Joint statement by the Belarusian human rights community
29.07.2021 Pavel Larchyk is a political prisoner
Joint statement of the Belarusian human rights community
28.07.2021 Human rights organizations insist on release of three new political prisoners
Joint statement by representatives of the Belarusian human rights community
26.07.2021 Viasna leaders remain in detention
Ales Bialiatski, chairman of the Human Rights Center “Viasna”, Valiantsin Stefanovich, deputy chairman, and Uladzimir Labkovich remain in pre-trial detention in Minsk, nearly two weeks after they were detained together with eight other members of Viasna.
23.07.2021 Stop demolition of Belarus’s civil society!
In recent days, the authorities have taken steps to close numerous down civil society organizations.
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.
22.07.2021 We demand retrials and release of three more political prisoners
Joint statement of the Belarusian human rights community
19.07.2021 9 new names on list of political prisoners
Joint statement by representatives of the Belarusian human rights community
19.07.2021 Ten political prisoners convicted in Telegram chats case
Judge Dzmitry Astapenka sentenced today ten political prisoners to five to nine years in prison, finding them guilty under Art. 293 (rioting), Art. 218 (deliberate destruction or damage to private property) and Art. 295 of the Criminal Code (illegal actions with firearms, ammunition and explosives).
17.07.2021 Five political prisoners released after 72 hours of detention. Bialiatski, Stefanovich, and Labkoviches are transferred to pre-trial detention center
On July 17, some human rights defenders who had been detained on 14 July under a criminal case were released from custody after 72 hours of detention.
