President Aleksander Lukashenka has pardoned six imprisoned opposition figures, including Nikolai Statkevich who was jailed after running against him for the presidency in 2010. Lukashenka, is running...
Today, 4 August, is celebrated as the International Day of Solidarity with Civil Society in Belarus. It is all the more important as the human rights landscape in Belarus has not improved, having been...
Ales Bialiatski, one of Belarus’ leading human rights defenders and the head of the human rights organisation Viasna has been released after 1052 days in prison. Prior to his arrest Ales Bialiat...
Almost four years has elapsed since Robert Hårdh, Executive Director of Civil Rights Defenders was last in Belarus. In 2010 to monitor the Belarusian election together with Ales Bialiatski – 2014 to h...
In this briefing paper, Civil Rights Defenders examines the situation of human rights defenders in Belarus and the difficulties they face under the authoritarian rule of President Lukashenka. This pap...
Ales Bialiatski, founder of the Belarusian human rights organisation Viasna, is the recipient of the 2014 Civil Rights Defender of the Year Award. For over 30 years, he has pursued a life of continuou...
The 19th December 2013 marks exactly three years since Belarus’ President Lukashenka’s won his fourth term in office winning nearly 80 % of the votes. The election itself was marred by violence, arres...
The ninth Pride festival in Minsk was recently arranged by the human rights organisation Gay Belarus. The event was aimed to consolidate the LGBT community and raise awareness about the difficult situ...
Several journalists in Belarus have been temporarily detained by the police without any legitimate reasons. Civil Rights Defenders and the Belarusian Association of Journalists (BAJ) demand that the h...
On the 14th of September, Natallia Mankouskaya, one of the leaders of the Belarusian LGBT-organisation GayBelarus, was forcibly taken off the train on the border between Ukraine and Belarus and subjec...
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