mass arrests

Human rights activists drew up a list of detainees.

On September 10, Syarhei Krupenich and Anastasiya Krupenich-Kandratsiyeva, a married couple from Minsk, were not released from the detention centre again, human rights activists report.

Maksim Znak and Maryia Kalesnikava face 12 years in prison

On Monday, human rights defender Nasta Loyka has been released after being questioned several times, human rights organisation Human Constanta reports.

Aleh Dzyachkou, Chairman of the Mahiliou branch of the Belarusian Language Society, has been sentenced to administrative arrest. He was accused of ‘distributing extremist information’, the Telegram channel MAYDAY reports.

41-year-old Minsker Dzmitry Bubenka was detained on August 9 and charged under Art. 24.23 of the Code of Administrative Offences.

HRC Viasna issued their report on human rights situation in Belarus in July 202. According to the watchdog, the number of political prisoners as of August 1 was 604, and the figure tends to grow.

Civil society is being wiped out in the heart of Europe, the human rights watchdog Amnesty International said on Wednesday amid the unprecedented wave of searches and detentions targeting more than a dozen civil society organisations in Belarus.

US Ambassador to Belarus Julie Fisher, who is staying in Vilnius due to the Belarusian foreign ministry’s not issuing a visa to her, commented on the latest cases of persecuting human rights activists in the country.