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2024 Country Reports on Human Rights Practices: Belarus, According to the U.S. Government
Significant human rights issues included credible reports of:
- torture or cruel, inhuman, or degrading treatment or punishment;
- involuntary or coercive medical or psychological practices; arbitrary arrest or detention;
- transnational repression against individuals in another country;
- witting cooperation with another country to carry out acts of transnational repression; serious abuses in a conflict related to Belarus’ complicity in Russia’s war against Ukraine;
- serious restrictions on freedom of expression and media freedom, including violence or threats of violence against journalists, unjustified arrests or prosecutions of journalists, censorship, and serious restrictions on the internet;
- trafficking in persons, including forced labor;
- prohibiting independent trade unions and systematic restrictions on workers’ freedom of association; and violence or threats against labor activists or union members.
The government did not take credible steps or actions to identify and punish officials who committed human rights abuses.
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