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The Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to the Ukrainian Centre for Civil Liberties, Belarusian human rights activist Ales Bialiatski and Russian Memorial

2022-10-10T10:40:50+02:007. October 2022|

This year's Nobel Peace Prize 2022 laureates are human rights defenders: the Ukrainian Centre for Civil Liberties, Belarusian human rights defender and founder of the human rights organisation Viasna, recognised as an extremist organisation in Belarus, and the Russian human rights centre Memorial, liquidated in Russia. The Ukrainian Centre for Civil Liberties was founded in 2007. The main objectives of the Centre are protection of human rights and the establishment

The harrowing cruelty of internal struggle in Belarus

2022-07-26T10:26:24+02:0014. July 2022|

“Treason of the state”: A new verdict for political prisoner Belsat journalist Ekaterina Andreyeva in Belarus A further 8 years in prison for the young Belarusian journalist who did nothing more than carry out her work as a journalist. With all the cruelty of the Russian war of aggression in Ukraine, we must not forget the cruelty towards well over a thousand political prisoners in Belarus! Political persecution began because

Ukrainian and Belarusian refugees in Lithuania, ISHR humanitarian aid, so much more than…

2022-12-07T10:23:53+01:004. July 2022|

In the letter from our exiled Belarusian partner organization "Our House/Nash Dom" , the well-known chairwoman Olga Karach describes how much more the humanitarian aid of ISHR means for her and the Ukrainian-Belarusian exile community in Lithuania than just the distribution of relief goods: They offer the refugees a Point of contact, here you can not only get things that you need, but also exchange ideas, share your suffering, and

ISHR humanitarian aid at the polish border

2022-12-07T10:38:02+01:007. March 2022|

Hurt twice: Belarusians are fleeing with Ukrainians   On the run again: Belarusians in exile in Ukraine. Alena is Belarusian from Gomel. When the protests in Belarus began in August 2020, she actively supported them. Alena went to all rallies, helped in the camp near the Okrestina prison, notorious for its torture methods, south-west of Minsk- she made transport services for people who were released, bought and brought food, water,

All hell is loose in the east

2025-11-06T16:37:12+01:0023. February 2022|

120,000 Russian soldiers on the Ukrainian border are an obvious threat to NATO and now the official recognition of the self-proclaimed People's Republics of Donetsk and Lugansk. All hell is loose in the east February 23, 2022, published 1 day before the start of the war. 120,000 Russian soldiers on the Ukrainian border are an obvious threat to NATO and now the official recognition of the self-proclaimed People's Republics

Belarus: Release of political prisoner Natallia Hershe

2022-02-18T13:30:45+01:0018. February 2022|

Belarus: Release of political prisoner Natallia Hershe Swiss and Belarus citizen, political prisoner Natallia Hersche was released after 17 months in the Belarusian prison. This was announced by Swiss President Ignazio Cassis in his Twitter account, having published a photo of Natallia Hersche with her brother and Swiss Ambassador to Belarus Christine Honegger: Finally! Natallia Hersche was released today after 17 months of imprisonment in Belarus. She was welcomed by

Buchbesprechung von Viktor Martinowitschs „Paranoia“

2022-02-18T13:51:57+01:0018. February 2022|

Die Buchbesprechung über das Buch von Viktor Martinowitsch „Paranoia“ Der 2010 im St. Peterburger Verlag AST Moskau und Astrel‘ veröffentlichte Roman, in Weißrussland verboten, 2013 auf Englisch erschienen, mit einem Nachwort des renommierten Osteuropa-Historikers Timothy Snyder versehen, setzt mit einer Reihe von Perlustrationsprotokollen eines nicht näher bezeichneten Ministeriums für Staatssicherheit ein. Angefügt ist der Appendix 1, in dem die observierte Person, Anatoli Petrowitsch Newinski, Autor von fünf Erzähl- und Dramenbänden, geboren

SOLIDARITY RALLY WITH BELARUS

2022-08-16T14:23:46+02:0028. September 2021|

Around a hundred people gathered at the historic Römerberg Square in Frankfurt-am-Main to demand an end to the "last dictatorship in Europe" and the release of all political prisoners in Belarus. Thanks to the ISHR, many German parliamentarians, academics and members of civil society came together to stand up for the Belarusian people. Photo: Valentin Popa. For democracy and freedom in Belarus Together with representatives of Belarusian civil society, politicians

The ISHR rally on 18 September 2021

2023-05-15T14:49:13+02:0019. August 2021|

The Belarusian democracy movement has been subjected to massive repression since the rigged presidential elections of 9 August 2020. Peaceful protesters have been brutally arrested, representatives of the opposition have been imprisoned and tortured, even media and NGOs' workers have been persecuted. The ISHR invites everyone to support the Belarusian democracy movement at a rally to be held on 18 September 2021 at Römer (Frankfurt-am-Main). Solidarity with the Belarusian democratic

Pyotr Kolpakov, veteran of the Great Patriotic War from Belarus, participant in the ISHR project “Tell me about the War,” dies at the age of 97

2021-11-26T10:43:18+01:004. January 2021|Tags: , , , , , |

Pyotr Kolpakov, veteran of the Great Patriotic War from Belarus, participant in the ISHR project “Tell me about the War,” dies at the age of 97 Participants of the ISHR project “Tell me about the War” grieve over the death of a veteran, winner of the Stalingrad and Kursk battles https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5MD3ZsNyPKY On January 3, 2021, Pyotr Kolpakov, a veteran of the Great Patriotic War from Belarus, a participant in the

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