Archipelago Belarus – post-Stalinist terror, what’s behind the new figures?

2024-08-21T13:42:20+02:00

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

Archipelago Belarus – post-Stalinist terror, what’s behind the new figures?2024-08-21T13:42:20+02:00

Belarus: 4 years of mass repressions

2024-08-19T16:52:47+02:00

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

Belarus: 4 years of mass repressions2024-08-19T16:52:47+02:00

The German Foreign Ministry confirmed the information about the death sentence of a German citizen in Belarus

2024-07-21T08:24:29+02:00

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,’

The German Foreign Ministry confirmed the information about the death sentence of a German citizen in Belarus2024-07-21T08:24:29+02:00

Olga Karach was sentenced to 12 years in prison and fined 170,000 euros

2024-07-09T19:55:30+02:00

On July 8, 2024 Brest Regional Court announced the verdict of human rights defender Olga Karach, head of the International Center for civil initiatives “Our House”. Olga Karach was sentenced to 12 years in prison and fined 600,000 Belarusian rubles (170,000 euros).   Together with her, Veranika Tsepkala, Yauhen Vilski, Anatoli Kotau and Vadzim Dzmitrenak received 12 years in prison each. Veranika Tsepkala also received a fine of

Olga Karach was sentenced to 12 years in prison and fined 170,000 euros2024-07-09T19:55:30+02:00

Human rights defender Olga Karach

2024-05-07T12:44:08+02:00

"As a human rights defender in exile, I have experienced death threats and assassination attempts, smear campaigns and pressure on close relatives." Bonn,  20. April 2024 This is the German transcript. You can find the video recording on our YouTube channel as well as linked in this article. Parliamentary elections were held in Belarus in February 2024, but the human rights situation continued to deteriorate during the election process. The

Human rights defender Olga Karach2024-05-07T12:44:08+02:00

Lukashenko on the road to totalitarianism: what can stop him?

2024-02-06T08:58:14+01:00

Over the past year, the development of Alexander Lukashenko's authoritarian regime has accelerated towards totalitarianism. Lukashenko preaches unity, but continues to divide his country / Foto © president.gov.by The government sees no reason to stop this development and is encroaching on all possible areas, including people's private lives, their employment, their travel abroad, their education or their historical memory. The Belarusian political scientist Artyom Shraibman analyses how the

Lukashenko on the road to totalitarianism: what can stop him?2024-02-06T08:58:14+01:00

Mass searches and detention of more than 80 people in one day in Belarus

2024-01-31T17:11:25+01:00

On 23 January, according to the Human Rights Centre "Viasna", 84 people were detained in Belarus for "participation in an extremist formation" and "financing of extremist activities". Foto: Stringer / EPA-EFE The detainees included relatives of political prisoners and former political prisoners. At the same time, the local authorities recognised as extremist the INeedHelpBy initiative, which helps pay for groceries for the families of repressed people and compatriots

Mass searches and detention of more than 80 people in one day in Belarus2024-01-31T17:11:25+01:00

Arbitrariness is the order of the day in Belarus

2023-08-08T16:27:46+02:00

More than 1,400 political prisoners are being held in Belarus - including candidates in the 2020 presidential election According to human rights activists, three years after the presidential elections in Belarus , arbitrary detentions and massive violence by security forces are the order of the day. The International Society for Human Rights (ISHR) announced on Tuesday in Frankfurt that more than 1,400 people are currently being held in Belarus for

Arbitrariness is the order of the day in Belarus2023-08-08T16:27:46+02:00

Beds for the Kherson Military Hospital

2023-03-08T11:32:11+01:00

Beds for the Kherson Military Hospital IGFM-Wittlich and the International Society for Human Rights handed over another batch of humanitarian aid to the Belarusian organisation "Nash Dom" in Lithuania. This time there were beds for an ambulance which will be sent to the Kherson Military Hospital.   8.03.2023 Photo: picture-alliance/dpa

Beds for the Kherson Military Hospital2023-03-08T11:32:11+01:00

Беларусь. Абурэнне не павінна застацца без увагі

2023-03-07T10:08:01+01:00

Беларусь. 10 гадоў пазбаўлення волі для 60-гадовага лаўрэата Нобелеўскай прэміі міру, д-ра філал. навук, праф. Алеся Бяляцкага. Ales Bialiatski, Dez. 2014, CC BY-SA 3.0 pl Яго апошнія словы ў судзе: "Гэта грамадзянская вайна павінна быць спынена! Спадзяюся, вы мяне пачуеце". Міжнароднае грамадства праў чалавека/IGFM настойліва заклікае ЕЗ узмацніць падтрымку беларускага дэмакратычнага руху. Гэта патрэбна не толькі па маральных меркаваннях, але і мацуе перамоўную пазіцыю Украіны супраць пуцінскай Расеі.

Беларусь. Абурэнне не павінна застацца без увагі2023-03-07T10:08:01+01:00
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