Theme: Human Rights Defenders

17 September 2021 marks one year since the beginning of the crackdown on Viasna, leading Belarus human rights NGOs. Jointly with Viasna, we calls for a global rally under the hashtag #FREEVIASNA to stand in solidarity for our imprisoned colleagues…

I remember August 2011 as the month my friend and colleague Ales Bialiatski, a human rights defender and director of the Belarussian Viasna Human Rights Centre, was arrested. Bialiatski was immediately recognized as a political prisoner being prosecuted for this human…

You can cut all the flowers, but you cannot keep the Spring from coming’ Pablo Neruda 161 human rights organisations demand an end to the repression against the Human Rights Center Viasna and all other human rights defenders in Belarus….

Press release of the PA HRM “Bir Duino-Kyrgyzstan” 25 July 2021 is the first anniversary of the death of human rights defender Azimzhan Askarov, who did not live to see a fair hearing of his case by an independent and…

New informationBLR 007 / 0721 / OBS 080.2BelarusJuly 16, 2021 The Observatory for the Protection of Human Rights Defenders, a partnership of FIDH and the World Organisation Against Torture (OMCT), has received new information and requests your urgent intervention in…

New informationBLR 007 / 0721 / OBS 080.1BelarusJuly 15, 2021 The Observatory for the Protection of Human Rights Defenders, a partnership of the World Organisation Against Torture (OMCT) and FIDH, has received new information and requests your urgent intervention in…