Country Belarus – Menschenrechte Osteuropa

In Belarus, the social networks of the International Society for Human Rights have been declared “extremist.”

ishr_online2026-03-13T09:07:54+01:0013. March 2026|

On 10 March, the Goretsky District Court recognised the Instagram, X and Facebook pages of the International Society for Human Rights as "extremist". On March 10, a court in the Horki District of Belarus declared the social media pages of the International Society for Human Rights on Instagram, X (formerly Twitter), and Facebook to be “extremist.” The decision concerns the official accounts of an international human rights organization that has

Andrzej Poczobut: Jailed for Reporting in Belarus

Team2025-12-19T11:49:25+01:0019. December 2025|

Andrzej Poczobut The 51-year-old journalist Andrzej Poczobut from Belarus was arrested on 25 March 2021 and sentenced to eight years in prison on 8 February 2023. He is currently held in a high-security penal colony in Navapolatsk. Despite serious health issues, his access to medical care remains limited. Case facts: Date of birth: 16 April 1973 Arrested: 25 March 2021 Sentenced: 8 February 2023 Charges: “Calls for actions aimed at

Political prisoner Andrei Podnebny died of suffocation in Belarusian prison

ishr_online2025-09-09T15:27:53+02:009. September 2025|

About the death of 36-year-old Andrei Podnebenny reported yesterday his mother in the social network Facebook. The cause of death of political prisoner Andrei Podnebennyy in Mahiliou colony No. 15 was suffocation, "Radio Svaboda" reports citing its own source. Other circumstances of the death of the political prisoner are still unknown. Official sources in the security forces have not yet commented on the incident. The death of 36-year-old Andrei Podnebennyi

IGFM-Wittlich sent humanitarian aid to Belarusian refugees in Lithuania

ishr_online2025-06-25T12:58:11+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

ishr_online2025-01-28T20:18:17+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?

ishr_online2024-08-21T13:42:20+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

ishr_online2024-08-19T16:52:47+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

ishr_online2024-07-21T08:24:29+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,’

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

ishr_online2024-07-09T19:55:30+02:009. July 2024|

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

Human rights defender Olga Karach

Valery2024-05-07T12:44:08+02:0029. April 2024|

"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

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