Mikola Dziadok „A free Belarus means a free Europe”“ Bonn, April 11, 2026. Presentation at the Annual General Meeting: Mikola Dziadok is a Belarusian blogger, journalist, and activist who has spent a total of 10 years of his life in prison. After serving his first prison sentence, he was arrested again during the 2020 protests and sentenced to another term of imprisonment. He was finally released in
54. Jahrestagung der IGFM Europa als Garant für Menschenrechte und Frieden Am 11. und 12. April 2026 fand die 54. Jahrestagung der IGFM in Bonn statt. Unter dem Leitthema „Europa als Garant für Menschenrechte und Frieden“ kamen Mitglieder, Partner und internationale Gäste zusammen, um über aktuelle Entwicklungen zu diskutieren – insbesondere über die Lage politischer Gefangener, religiös Verfolgter sowie von Menschen, die wegen ihres Engagements gegen autoritäre Systeme verfolgt werden.
The ISHR’s social media accounts have been classified as ‘extremist material’ in Belarus The human rights organisation is not deterred by this designation and will continue its work on Belarus. In the Republic of Belarus, the long-standing dictator Lukashenko rules with brutal severity and has thousands of people arrested on arbitrary grounds. Hundreds of thousands of Belarusians have left the country since the rigged elections of 2020, whilst thousands more
On 7 August 2025, ISHR Secretary General Matthias Boehning and ISHR President Prof. Dr. Dr. Thomas Paul Schirrmacher met in Vilnius with Belarusian opposition leader Sviatlana Tikhanouskaya. They were accompanied by Martin Oliner (ISHR Strategic Advisor), Jed Oliner (ISHR Volunteer Lithuania), Jurgita Samoskiene (ISHR Country Lead Lithuania) and Kristina Trinkūnaitė (Head of Communications, Caritas Lithuania). Together, they discussed the current situation of the Belarusian diaspora in Europe and the challenges
Гуманітарную дапамогу для беларусаў сабралі нямецкія ўдзельнікі арганізацыі IGFM—Wittlich 15 чэрвеня 2025 года на склад праваабарончай арганізацыі «Наш дом» пад Вільнюсам прыбыў цалкам загружаны грузавік аб'ёмам 90 кубічных метраў з гуманітарнай дапамогай. Груз — 15 тон адзення, мэблі, рэчаў побыту і школьных прылад — быў сабраны арганізацыяй IGFM-Wittlich у Германіі і цяпер размеркаваны сярод беларускіх і ўкраінскіх бежанцаў у Літве. У тую раніцу больш за 30 беларусаў з Вільнюса сабраліся,
In Warsaw on 26 January 2025, thousands of Belarusians protested against the "presidential elections" in their home country and carried a large white-red-white flag through the streets of the city. Leading the protest march, Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya, President-elect of Belarus. Photo: Еврорадио ISHR: Total control of the dictator Lukashenko Belarusian democracy movement must continue to be supported Minsk/Frankfurt-am-Main, 27 January 2025 - The so-called presidential elections in Belarus
Анджэй Пачобут 51-гадовы журналіст Анджэй Пачобут быў затрыманы ў Беларусі 25 сакавіка 2021 года і 8 лютага 2023 года асуджаны да васьмі гадоў пазбаўлення волі. У цяперашні час ён утрымліваецца ў папраўчай калоніі ўзмоцненага рэжыму ў Наваполацку. Нягледзячы на сур’ёзныя праблемы са здароўем, доступ да медыцынскай дапамогі застаецца абмежаваным. Факты справы: Дата нараджэння: 16 красавіка 1973 года Арыштаваны: 25 сакавіка 2021 года Асуджаны: 8 лютага 2023 годаа Абвінавачанні: «Заклікі да
Exactly four years after the uprising of the Belarusian democracy movement in the summer of 2020, the best-known exile organisation ‘Viasna’ presents its infographic ‘4 Years of Mass Repression’. Excerpts from it here at a glance Looking back: Spring 2020 - 3 presidential candidates eliminated Courageous and powerful men had indeed put themselves on the list of presidential candidates for the election in August 2020 in accordance with democratic
Statistics of Belarusian protest. 4 years of repression There are currently at least 1,385 political prisoners in prison. Some 65,000 people have been arrested in four years as part of political persecution. At least half a million Belarusians have fled Belarus 500,000 More than 74,000 cases of repression have been registered in four years: searches, short-term and long-term detentions, interrogations, etc. At least 6,971 people are known to be criminally
The German Foreign Ministry confirmed the information about the death sentence of German citizen Rico Krieger in Belarus According to the German Foreign Ministry in response to DW request, the department and the German Embassy in Minsk provide consular assistance to this person and work intensively with the Belarusian authorities in his interests. ‘The death penalty is a cruel and inhuman form of punishment, which Germany rejects under any circumstances,’