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...
On 18 January, the Belarusian police detained Leanid Sudalenka, human rights activist and head of the Homiel branch of Human Rights Centre Viasna, and his ...
In early December, Belarusian democracy activist and 2014 Civil Rights Defender of the Year awardee Ales Bialiatski visited Stockholm to receive this year’s Right Livelihood Award. His message to the ...
In Belarus, the protest movement is still going strong. Every Sunday since the presidential election in August, tens of thousands of Belarusians have been taking to the streets to protest against Luka...
The popular independent news outlet NEXTA has been labelled “extremist” in Belarus. In a joint statement, we condemn this clear attempt to silence protesters and critics. Read the statement in full be...
The Belarusian human rights defender Ales Bialiatski is one of this year’s recipients of the Right Livelihood Award, an award often referred to as the “alternative Nobel Prize”. Ales Bialiatski, who r...
The undersigned organisations call for the Belarusian authorities to drop their criminal defamation lawsuit against editor-in-chief of Nasha Niva, Yahor Martsinovich, and to immediately release him fr...
In a joint letter, 16 human rights organisations call on the United Nations Human Rights Council to convene a special session to address the human rights violations committed in the leadup, during and...
On Sunday, 9 August, thousands of people went to the streets across Belarus. Official exit polls had announced another landslide victory for President Lukashenka, the sixth in a row. The protests were...
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