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On January 14, Mazyr district court completed hearing the case of 17-year-old Maksim Kuksachenka and 18-year-old Mikita Silivon.

The Amnesty International human rights watchdog and the Belarusian Council of Culture have announced a joint action in support of 17-year-old political prisoner Mikita Zalatarou.

On June 28, 16-year-old Daniil Kalesnikau was sentenced to 1 year and 3 months in a juvenile correction facility, human rights centre Viasna reports.

When 13-year-old Yauheniya didn’t return home from a walk at 9 p.m. on March 29, her mother Iryna Varachkova got worried and called her. After the girl picked up the phone, an investigator said that Yauheniya was in police custody, reports TUT.BY.

On March 10, nine persons were convicted in Maskouski district court of Brest as part of the ‘mass riots’ case. Journalists and human rights activists were not let into the courtroom.