The opposition won no seats in the parliamentary election in Belarus on 17 November. Election observers claim the election had significant shortcomings and highlight an overall disregard for fundament...
On 17 November, parliamentary elections will be held in Belarus. They will be followed by presidential elections next year. Civil Rights Defenders recently spoke to two human rights defenders about th...
On 12 June, Civil Rights Defenders joined Amnesty International, Human Rights House Foundation, Human Rights Watch and the International Federation for Human Rights in calling on Member and Observer ...
Independent voices from Belarus: Close-up with Katerina Bakhvalova, journalist at Belsat Independent journalists in Belarus are constantly faced with the risk of receiving heavy fines, being violently...
All over the world, journalists are targeted, threatened, and even murdered, because of their work. Sharing important information, journalists are often perceived as a threat by the authorities, who n...
Independent voices from Belarus: Close-up with Pavel Slepuhin, photo correspondent at Ex-press.by Pavel Slepuhin is a photo correspondent working in Borisov, a small town in Belarus. Like many of hi...
Independent voices from Belarus: Close-up with Olga Chaychits, journalist at Belsat Working as an independent journalist in Belarus means working under constant pressure. This however does not stop Ol...
Independent voices from Belarus: Close-up with Pavlyuk Bykovski, correspondent for Deutsche Welle As an independent journalist in Belarus, Pavlyuk Bykovski has been threatened and harassed on several...
Independent voices from Belarus: Close-up with Tatyana Korovenkova, reporter at BelaPAN Tatyana Korovenkova is an independent journalist living and working in Belarus. She believes that today’s pressi...
Civil Rights Defenders is very concerned about recent developments in the criminal case against two Belarusian trade union leaders. The sentence – which is clearly politically motivated – was announce...
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