On the first anniversary of the unprecedented crackdown on the Human Rights Center Viasna (“Viasna”) in Belarus, Civil Rights Defenders and 23 international and Belarusian human ...
On 27 August 2021, the Belarusian Supreme Court moved to liquidate the Belarusian Association of Journalists (BAJ), one of the country’s few remaining civil society organisations t...
Friday, 13 August at 1 PM CET, human rights defender and Natalia Project participant Nasta Lojka was detained in central Minsk, Belarus. The alarm was sounded at Civ...
Today marks one year since Alexander Lukashenka rigged Belarus’ presidential elections in his favour. The situation for human rights in the country continues to deteriorate, as Lukashenka uses increas...
Since 14 July 2021, authorities have conducted around 30 coordinated raids at the homes and offices of several prominent human rights defenders in Belarus. 12 activists from Viasna Human Rights Centre...
In March 2021, Civil Rights Defenders and other human rights organisations urged the UN to create a new mandate that would assist the process of accountability for human rights violations committed in...
Alexandr Lukashenka’s hijacking of a civilian plane and arrest of prominent independent journalist Raman Pratasevich and activistSofia Sapega stirred up large intern...
On Sunday 23 May, the Belarusian government forced a Ryanair flight from Athens to Vilnius to land in Minsk. The plane was diverted by a military jet on President Lukashenka’s orders. Upon landing, th...
We, the undersigned associations and human rights organisations, call on the Human Rights Council to create a new mechanism assisting the process of accountability for human rights violations in Belar...
On the morning of Tuesday 16 February, the Belarusian authorities unleashed a new brutal attack against the human rights and media community in the country. The authorities conducted searches in sever...
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