“The practice of incommunicado detention of members of the political opposition and prominent figures sentenced to lengthy prison terms for voicing dissent […]
UN rights chief urges Belarus to promptly release political detainees
The report, covering the period between May 2020 and December 2022, draws on interviews with 207 victims and witnesses and […]
Newly announced prison terms in Belarus signal ‘ongoing repression’
“The prison sentences delivered today in Belarus against four human rights defenders, including Nobel Peace Prize laureate Ales Bialiatski, are […]
Belarus: Trial of Nobel laureate Ales Bialiatski ‘politically motivated’
Mr. Bialiatski, a veteran rights campaigner and founder of Viasna (or “spring”) civil society group, was arrested in July 2021 […]
Belarus: Rights experts denounce withdrawal from key environmental agreement |
The Aarhus Convention, adopted in 1998, also requires that individuals exercising these rights are not persecuted, penalized or harassed for […]
Belarus ‘engulfed in fear’, Human Rights Council hears |
Presenting her annual report to the Human Rights Council in Geneva, Anaïs Marin, Special Rapporteur on the human rights situation […]