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…
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How teenagers end up being persecuted 12 November 2020, 07:25 | Ihar Ilyash, Katsiaryna Andreyeva, BELASAT For the last six months, 900 criminal investigations related to peaceful protests and the 2020 election campaign have been launched in Belarus. These investigations Read more…
Stories of Violence in Belarus 11 November 2020, 14:11 | Belarus in focus Belarus in Focus, Press Club Belarus, Belarusian Association of Journalists (BAJ), Legal Initiative, Viasna human rights center, and the independent Belarusian media present the Seeking Justice. Stories Read more…
29 October 2020 | Viasna Human Rights Center Five 17-year-old students of one of the Minsk universities were detained on 27 October after a rally of solidarity with the students on strike. All five were detained in the courtyard of Read more…
29 September 2020, 10:32 | TUT.BY Two residents of Maladzechna who had participated in a protest rally on 19 June 2020, where one of the riot police had taken out a gun, were convicted and received prison sentences, according to Read more…
26 September 2020 | Viasna A criminal investigation on “mass riots”, article 293 of the Criminal Code, has been started against five activists of “European Belarus”, as the telegram channel of the company informs. On September 25 in Minsk activists Read more…
The story of a student who was beaten up for refusing to unlock his mobile phone 16 September 2020, 12:03 | Nasha Niva A 21-year-old student from Minsk University was brutally detained in the evening of 12 September near the Read more…
7 September 2020 | Viasna Joint statement of Belarusian human rights organizations Minsk, 7 September 2020. We, representatives of the Belarusian human rights community, have observed an increase in repression against the country’s citizens. The victims of these repressive actions Read more…
20 August 2020 | Viasna The “Viasna” human rights center and the World Organization Against Torture (OMCT) are continuing to document instances of torture, cruelty, as well as inhumane and degrading treatment of participants of the protests that took place Read more…
13 August, 2020, Viasna Several leading human rights organizations of Belarus have written to the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, as well as a number of thematic Special Rapporteurs urging them to take urgent measures in response to the Read more…