Statement on the recognition of 11 new political prisoners
Joint statement by the Belarusian human rights community
Statement on the recognition of 22 new political prisoners
Statement by the human rights community of Belarus
Political prisoner has a progressing cancer. He is undergoing chemotherapy at the prison hospital
Pavel Kuchynski, a Maladzečna resident, was assigned the first group of disabilities: he has stage four Hodgkin's lymphoma.
Human Rights Situation in Belarus: November 2023
Human rights defenders regularly identify and document cases of torture and prohibited types of treatment during the investigation of politically motivated criminal cases, as well as prohibited types of treatment of detainees in administrative proceedings.
22 political prisoners released in November having served their sentences
Viasna recounts their cases and terms in the monthly digest.
Situation on the eve of the elections*2024. First report of the campaign “Human Rights Defenders for Free Elections” (document)
The expert monitoring mission of the elections*2024 is carried out by the Belarusian Helsinki Committee and the Human Rights Center "Viasna" within the campaign "Human Rights Defenders for Free Elections".
What happened to political prisoners between November 27 and December 5
Viasna provides a weekly overview of the latest news on political prisoners.
The case of the Coordinating Council is a new attack on the civil society of Belarus (updated)
Inform human rights defenders about detentions and searches in the Coordinating Council case.
The statement of human rights defenders on the recognition of eight people as political prisoners
Joint statement by the Belarusian human rights community
"Healthcare in prison is a black mirror that each of us has looked into"
In Vilnius, on November 29, a public initiative Doctors for Truth and Justice held a conference on penitentiary medicine and psychology in Belarus.
Human rights defenders prepared a report to the UN on the state's implementation of the recommendations of the third cycle of the Universal Periodic Review
The report was prepared by a coalition of Belarusian human rights organizations.
Stories of teenage political prisoners of Belarus who were deprived of their freedom
Viasna reports how the Belarusian authorities persecute children for political reasons, and why the children were imprisoned.
Death penalty
- Death sentence passed in Sluck
- The prosecutor requested the death penalty for a man accused of murder
- "I've always been against it." The leader of the band Mashina Vremeni joined the campaign Human Rights Defenders against the Death Penalty in Belarus
- We invite you to an event in Białystok for the International Day against the Death Penalty
- Protects everyone’s right to life: UN Special Rapporteurs addressed Belarusian authorities
- Human rights defenders strongly protest against expansion of the death penalty in Belarus
- Condemned prisoner's death date revealed more than a year after the execution
- Andrei Paluda: “Authorities still consider the death penalty as a deterrent”
- Tsikhanouskaya: “Activists live in fear of being shot dead”
- “It is all the more urgent to come together”: World Congress Against the Death Penalty starts
- Andrei Paluda: “I hope there will be no more death sentences”
- The UN HRC found a violation of the rights of the mother of executed Pavel Selyun
- Amnesty International: Belarus remains the only country in Europe carrying out executions
- State Department: The perpetrators of human rights abuses will be held to account
- Amnesty International: New death penalty law is the ultimate attack on human rights
Our websites
