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Maria Kalesnikava admitted to intensive care
Political prisoner Maria Kalesnikava was taken to a hospital with a surgical condition and underwent surgery on November 28, according to the Telegram account of the opposition politician Viktar Babaryka.…
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“We understand everything, your cousin died, but you have to serve time”
Relatives of volunteers fighting in the Ukrainian Armed Forces are systematically detained in Belarus. Siarhei Bandarenka ended up in a hospital after being beaten up during interrogation. He managed to…
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Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya at UN: Belarus is under temporary military occupation
The national leader of Belarus Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya met with the ambassadors of the EU, the US, the UK, Mexico, and other countries in Geneva and called on the UN to…
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Google removes ads showing interrogation of political prisoners
Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya turned to Google with a request to stop the abuse of YouTube by the Lukashenko regime and law enforcement agencies, which routinely use it for showing and advertising…
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Journalist and activist Mikola Dziadok sentenced to 5 years in prison
Mikola Dziadok, a 33-year-old political prisoner, journalist and anarchist, was sentenced to five years behind bars. In his final speech, Dziadok said that no terror can stop human emancipation and…
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German Prosecutor General’s Office receives complaint against Belarusian security forces
Human rights organizations filed a criminal complaint against six high-ranking members of the Belarusian security forces. The complaint was filed with the Public Prosecutor General of Germany according to the…
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New BYPOL investigation into torture in detention centers
BYPOL has published the results of an investigation revealing identities of those responsible for the conditions "political" detainees were kept in in detention centers.
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No criminal proceedings to be launched against Belarusian police officers
The Investigative Committee of Belarus has refused to open criminal cases based on complaints from the victims of the security forces' violence in August 2020.
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International Committee for Investigation of Torture in Belarus presents its 5th report
The detected crimes are classified as crimes against humanity, for which the perpetrators must be punished.
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Offender detention center on Akrestsina Street is Auschwitz of 21st century
Dzianis Urbanovich describes conditions in the Akrestsina offender detention center as genocide: any person who gets there is “simply destroyed”.