The Human Rights Center “Viasna”

21.04.2021 Three new names on list of political prisoners

Joint statement of the Belarusian human rights community

20.04.2021 HRDs demand retrials and release of 3 more political prisoners

Joint statement of the Belarusian human rights community

19.04.2021 Viasna issues new report on protest-related administrative cases

Viasna’s lawyers and analysts have prepared and published a report entitled “Politically Motivated Administrative Proceedings: Standards and Reality in Contemporary Belarus”.

15.04.2021 Viasna human rights activist Aliaksandr Vaitseshyk jailed in Baranavičy, goes on hunger strike

Aliaksandr Vaitseshyk, activist of the Human Rights Center “Viasna” in Baranavičy, was sentenced to 15 days in prison. However, it is still unknown what charges he faced.

14.04.2021 Critical bloggers Piatrukhin and Kabanau sentenced to three years in prison

The Kastryčnicki District Court of Mahilioŭ ruled today in a criminal case against Brest-based bloggers Siarhei Piatrukhin and Aliaksandr Kabanau.

12.04.2021 Immediately release political prisoner Tatsiana Hatsura-Yavorskaya!

Joint statement of Belarusian human rights organizations

09.04.2021 11 new names on list of political prisoners

Joint statement by the human rights organizations of Belarus

08.04.2021 Five more convicts in defamation trials called political prisoners

Joint statement by representatives of the Belarusian human rights community

07.04.2021 Human rights groups insist on release and retrials for 15 more political prisoners

Joint statement of the Belarusian human rights community

07.04.2021 Stop persecution of human rights activists Tatsiana Hatsura-Yavorskaya and Enira Branitskaya

Joint statement of the Belarusian human rights community

06.04.2021 Artist Ales Pushkin is a political prisoner

Joint statement of the Belarusian human rights community

02.04.2021 Human Rights Situation in Belarus: March 2021

The authorities continued to actively prosecute individuals for political reasons. There were 325 political prisoners, as of the end of March, and their number continues to increase.

01.04.2021 Sisters sentenced to prison terms in political trial

Judge Aliaksandr Volk of the Saviecki District Court of Minsk has sentenced Anastasiya and Viktoryia Mirontsava, both political prisoners, to two and two and a half years in prison, respectively, finding the sisters guilty of “breaching public order” (Part 1 of Art. 342 of the Criminal Code) and “using violence against police officers” (Part 1 of Art. 363).