Tsikhanouskaya, Kalesnikava, and Tsepkalo awarded the Peace and Human Rights Prize; human rights activist Tanya Hatsura-Yavorska released from the pre-trial detention center; the authorities keep sentencing people and Belarusians keep protesting 15 April 2021 | Voice of Belarus Tsikhanouskaya, Kalesnikava, Read more…
National Anti-Crisis Management submitted a petition to Yara management requesting termination of the contract with Belaruskali; dismissals and court trials have become a way to scare and take revenge; pressure on the Union of Poles continues unabated 14 April 2021 Read more…
The worse it is for the people, the better for the authorities? 11 April 2021 | Voice of Belarus Please turn on subtitles and choose your language in the video settings. There is no other way to explain the actions Read more…
Statkevich, Tsikhanouski, and Losik will be tried in court for criticizing the authorities; a schoolgirl is persecuted for writing a word on the pavement; the new Minister of Information believes that the time for punishment has come; the judge considered Read more…
Amnesty International claims blatant suppression of freedom of speech and peaceful assembly in Belarus; home prison sentence for providing medical help to protesters, beatings in prisons, arrests for the colour of clothes and drawings 7 April 2021 | Voice of Read more…
Viktar Babaryka refuses to testify in court; searches targeting human rights defenders continue; Belarusians demand that Norwegian Yara terminates the contract with Belaruskali; Lviv authorities refuse to buy MAZ buses 6 April 2021 | Voice of Belarus Viktar Babaryka gave Read more…
US and Switzerland expanded sanctions; Tsikhanouskaya begins the second stage of preparations for negotiations with the authorities; security forces will be able to use weapons with impunity and journalists will be considered protesters 31 March 2021 | Voice of Belarus Read more…
Freedom Day as the beginning of a protest spring 28 March 2021 | Voice of Belarus Please turn on subtitles and choose your language in the video settings. On 25 March, Belarusians celebrate Freedom Day. On this day in 1918, Read more…
The first protest of the Belarusian spring: no mass action in Minsk; Andrzej Duda asks the UN Security Council to discuss the persecution of Poles in Belarus 27 March 2021 | Voice of Belarus The first protest of the Belarusian Read more…
21 March 2021 | Deutsche Welle Ales Bialiatski, the head of Viasna Human Rights Centre in Minsk, told DW that the level of repressions in Belarus is off the charts and explained how the West can help Belarusian political prisoners. Read more…