Theme: Human Rights Defenders

URGENT APPEAL – THE OBSERVATORY BLR 007 / 0721 / OBS 080 Belarus July 14, 2021 The Observatory for the Protection of Human Rights Defenders, a partnership of the World Organisation Against Torture (OMCT) and FIDH, requests your urgent intervention…

14 July, the morning following the adoption of the UN resolution condemning the human rights situation in the country, Belarusian authorities conducted a large-scale raid on human rights defenders. Searches took place in the offices of Human Rights Center Viasna,…

ADC Memorial is deeply concerned about today’s searches and arrests of our Belarusian colleagues from Human Rights Center Viasna and other civil rights initiatives – BHC, Human Constanta, Lawtrend, Gender Perspectives, independent journalists, trade unionists and others. Political repressions against…

Viasna protests ongoing repression of its activists Statement by the Board of the Human Rights Center “Viasna” March 5, 2020 The Main Department for Investigation of Crimes in the Sphere of Organized Crime and Corruption of the Central Office of…

On February 16, 2021 the massive searches, detentions and interrogations of human rights defenders and journalists took place accross Belarus. The searches started early in the morning and lasted for several hours, the latest ended by night. Several activists have…

(Minsk, Paris) 7 October 2020 Belarus’ presidential election – marred by an unprecedented level of falsifications and leading to mass protests – has been followed by brutal, ongoing repression of human rights by the authorities. Belarusian human rights groups are…