Dec 6, 2022 | All news
Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya is currently on a working visit to Sweden. Ms. Tsikhanouskaya met with the new Prime Minister of Sweden Ulf Kristersson. At the meeting, he underscored that Sweden has been supporting the Belarusian democratic movement and will...
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...
Nov 14, 2022 | All news
there are 1421 political prisoners in Belarus today; at least 3661 people convicted for political reasons; since 2020, about 15000 politically motivated criminal cases have been opened; right now, about 4000 people are awaiting trial...
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...
Nov 4, 2022 | All news
We, Belarusians, have been hearing the West repeating these words for more than two years, but still do not understand what they mean. We do not understand how long is this “necessary”? How long will it take? Because it really...
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...
Mar 5, 2022 | All news
In this video Philosopher, Representative of Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya on Education and Science Tatiana Shchyttsova appealed to the academic community. Text of appeal: “Dear colleagues, my appeal is addressed to the international academic community Today, the...
Feb 10, 2022 | All news
This report was prepared by the Belarusian Students’ Association in cooperation with the Belarusian Independent Bologna Committee to inform concerned parties on the repressions in the Belarusian academia and...
Feb 1, 2022 | All news
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...
Jan 24, 2022 | All news
The Ambassador of Austria in Warsaw and the NAM organize the Month of Belarusian Culture. On January 19, 2022, a large-scale cultural project was presented at the Austrian House of Culture in Warsaw to hold the Month of Belarusian Culture from June 6 to July 7, 2022....
Jan 24, 2022 | All news
Poland’s Foreign Minister Mariusz Kamiński said that Poland admitted 15,000 political refugees from Belarus after the events of 2020. In his speech at the international Border Management conference in Vilnius, Kamiński stressed that Poland “will never refuse to accept...
Jan 15, 2022 | All news
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...
Jan 7, 2022 | All news
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...
Sep 17, 2021 | All news
We ask to support the suspension of the accreditation of the Listapad festival The Head of the NAM Pavel Latushka sent letters to the leadership of the European Film Academy, the International Federation of Film Press...