At the forty-ninth session of the UN Human Rights Council (28 February — 1 April 2022), a comprehensive report on the human rights situation in Belarus ahead of the 2020 presidential election and beyond was presented. The report...
The number of political prisoners in Belarus exceeded 1,000 people. According to “Viasna” human rights center, today there are 1022 of them in the country. The number of people held in prisons for political reasons is even higher because many refuse such...
FIDH releases a briefing paper analysing foreign-made less lethal weapons and firearms employed by the Belarusian security forces to crack down on peaceful protesters, provides an overview of their procurement and application, and outlines possible avenues for state...
At the end of 2021, there were 969 political prisoners in Belarus. This is the largest number of political prisoners in the history of independent Belarus. There are people of all ages, professions and social status among the prisoners, but they are united by one...
Quotes from the report by the program director of the International Partnership for Human Rights The crimes of the Lukashenka regime have become obvious to the entire international community — and they no longer affect only citizens...
