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IGFM-Wittlich sent humanitarian aid to Belarusian refugees in Lithuania

2025-06-25T12:58:11+02:0025. June 2025|

Humanitarian aid for Belarusians was collected by German participants of the   IGFM—Wittlich  organisation On 15 June 2025, a fully loaded truck with 90 cubic metres of humanitarian aid arrived at the warehouse of the human rights organisation ‘Our House’ near Vilnius. The cargo - 15 tonnes of clothes, furniture, household items and school supplies - was collected by IGFM-Wittlich in Germany and is now being distributed among Belarusian and Ukrainian

Mock election in Belarus

2025-01-28T20:18:17+01:0028. January 2025|

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

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

2024-08-21T13:42:20+02:0021. August 2024|

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

Belarus: 4 years of mass repressions

2024-08-19T16:52:47+02:0019. August 2024|

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 a German citizen in Belarus

2024-07-21T08:24:29+02:0021. July 2024|

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,’

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

2024-02-06T08:58:14+01:006. February 2024|

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

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

2024-01-31T17:11:25+01:0031. January 2024|

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

Nationwide raids on family members of political prisoners

2024-01-25T12:15:04+01:0024. January 2024|

Frankfurt a.M. – Belarus Nationwide raids on family members of political prisoners The Belarusian dictator Alexander Lukashenkо sends his Dementors into a psychological war against his own people. His aim is to personally punish and destroy the political prisoners - and with them the Belarusian democracy movement - with psychological terror. The International Society for Human Rights strongly condemns yesterday's arrests and repressions and describes Lukashenka's increasing isolation policy as

Beds for the Kherson Military Hospital

2023-03-08T11:32:11+01:008. March 2023|

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

Belarus: The outcry must not remain unheard

2023-03-07T10:06:26+01:006. March 2023|

Belarus. 10 years imprisonment for the 60-year-old Nobel Peace Prize laureate, Dr. phil. Ales Bialiatski. Ales Bialiatski, Dec. 2014, CC BY-SA 3.0 pl His last words in court:“This civil war must end! I hope you will hear me" The International Society for Human Rights urges the EU to intensify support for the Belarusian democracy movement. This is not only necessary for moral reasons, but also strengthens the negotiating

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