HUMAN RIGHTS IN BELARUS
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Belarus: Welcome Release of 250 Political Prisoners Must Not Be Mistaken for Justice
March 20, 2026
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Belarus: Prisoner of Conscience Mikalai Statkevich’s Release After a Stroke Highlights Need for Justice for Human Rights Violations
February 20, 2026
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Belarus: Long Overdue Release of Maryia Kalesnikava, Ales Bialiatski and Others Must Not Mask the Scale of Repression
December 13, 2025
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Belarus: Release of 52 Prisoners Welcome but without Accountability Repression Persists
September 15, 2025
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Belarus: Sentencing Of Human Rights Defenders A ‘Blatant Retaliation’ For Their Work
March 3, 2023 | economic social and cultural rights
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Free Student in Belarus Jailed for 6.5 Years for Reposting Criticism of Ukraine War and Lukashenka
July 6, 2022 | Belarus
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New Evidence of Abuses in Poland &038; Belarus Highlights ‘Hypocrisy’ of Unequal Treatment of Asylum-Seekers
April 10, 2022 | ASYLUM
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New evidence of brutal violence from Belarusian forces against asylum-seekers and migrants facing pushbacks from the EU
December 20, 2021 | asylum seekers
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&8220;Exceptional Measures&8221; Normalize Dehumanization of Asylum Seekers in Europe
December 1, 2021 | asylum; asylum seekers; belarus; european commission
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Abuse of Protesters and Prisoners Highlights Urgent Need to Regulate Torture Tools
December 10, 2020 | abuses by law enforcement
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More than 1,000 people arrested in Belarus in a single day of peaceful protests
November 9, 2020
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Attacks on journalists in Belarus mount amid protest crackdown
August 12, 2020 | free speech