Valiantsin Stefanovich: detention, trial and release – chronology
“Viasna” spoke with Valentin not only about the absurdity of the prison system and the b…
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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.
“If they lock me up again—well, then I’ll do the time.” Andrei Pochobut on Freedom, death row, and the right to return.
Polish-Belarusian journalist and activist Andrey Poczobut was released on April 28, 2026, after more…
Former political prisoners turned to UN experts over persecution for “disobedience” in penal colonies
Lead. Activists released from Belarus—and those forcibly expelled—have put Article 411 of …
Belarus adds the YouTube channel vDud to the national list of extremist materials
On 30 April 2026, the Ministry of Information of the Republic of Belarus updated the&…
On the 40th anniversary of the Chernobyl NPP disaster, the “The Chernobyl Way” crossed paths in Florida
In Belarus today, going out with a flag means prison. Here in Florida, we can walk freely. Let us us…
«Chernobyl Way»: 40 years since the disaster and a march against forgetting
Chernobyl Way is an annual procession of Belarusians on 26 April, marking the anniversary of the acc…