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Belarus, 2022: a minimum of 17 people per day were detained on a politically motivated basis! At least 6,381 have been detained in the course of the year. Information about repressions in the years 2020-2022

Jan 10, 2023 | All news

Belsat.eu collected and analyzed all available figures related to criminal and administrative persecution of Belarusians over the past 2.5 years. After the suppression of the mass protests of 2020, the intensity of politically motivated...

“Rail guerrilla” shot in knees during arrest, sentenced to 13 years of imprisonment

Jan 9, 2023 | All news

Belarusian Vital Melnik, recognized as a political prisoner, was sentenced to 13 years in a maximum security penal colony and property confiscation. In addition, he has to pay a fine of about $3,800 USD. Vital Melnik, 40, was accused of setting fire to a...

European Parliament: Belarus should be recognized as occupied territory

Nov 29, 2022 | All news

On November 24, the European Parliament voted on a resolution condemning the repression of the democratic opposition and civil society in Belarus and Belarus’ active involvement in the Russian aggression against Ukraine. The resolution endorses the...

IKEA allegedly procured products made by prisoners in Belarus: What the company says

Nov 18, 2022 | All news

A journalist investigation conducted by the We Report group has revealed that IKEA worked with Belarusian suppliers who used forced labor of prisoners, including that of political prisoners. According to the authors of the investigative study for the French...

Repression at National Academy of Sciences: scientists give lectures to each other in prison

Nov 14, 2022 | All news

Security forces detained at least 44 scientists during a “raid” on the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) in early November. Criminal cases were launched against some of them. Now all the detainees are being laid off from the Academy. Among the detainees are Aleh...

114 people sentenced to 425 years of imprisonment in October alone

Nov 7, 2022 | All news

According to the data collected by the Viasna Human Rights Center, at least 114 people were convicted in politically motivated criminal cases in Belarus in October 2022. The same number of people were convicted in September, but in October there were 36...

Number of ‘extremists’ in Belarus increased threefold in October 2022

Nov 4, 2022 | All news

The Viasna Human Rights Center reports that the human rights crisis in Belarus is deepening.  In October 2022, 72 more people were recognized as political prisoners in the country, and the number of people allegedly “involved in extremism” increased...

12 people in ‘Autukhovich case’ sentenced to 197 years in prison

Oct 19, 2022 | All news

Political prisoner Mikalai Autukhovich was sentenced to 25 years in a high-security penal colony. He will serve the first five years in a maximum-security prison. This is an unprecedentedly harsh sentence in a politically motivated case in Belarus. Along...

Belarusian human rights activist Ales Bialiatski wins Nobel Peace Prize

Oct 7, 2022 | All news

Ales Bialiatski, the founder and head of the Viasna Human Rights Center has been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. He shared the award with the Russian human rights organization Memorial and the Ukrainian Center for Civil Liberties. Bialiatski was hailed...

At least 98 people were convicted in politically motivated cases in August 2022

Sep 16, 2022 | All news

The Viasna Human Rights Center reports that in August 2022 at least 98 people, out of whom 19 were women, were convicted in political cases. More than half of the sentences were handed down on charges of defamation, which are typically brought up against those...

Human rights defender Marfa Rabkova sentenced to 15 years of prison

Sep 15, 2022 | All news

Marfa Rabkova, political prisoner and formerly coordinator of the volunteer service of the Viasna Human Rights Center, was sentenced to 15 years of imprisonment and a fine of almost USD 9,000. The 27-year-old has been held in a pre-trial detention center for two...

Political prisoner with stage 4 cancer sentenced to 5 years in prison

Jun 9, 2022 | All news

In Vileika, political prisoner Pavel Kuchynski was sentenced to five years in prison. He was accused of insulting Lukashenko and government officials, as well as threatening violence against police officers. The judge also ruled that moral damages to the...

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