repression-2022

Nasha Niva media staff face five years in jail over utility payments
They paid for utilities not as legal entities, but as individuals
28.02.2022
Photographer Ulad Hrydzin tried and punished for disobeying police during search
Hrydzin was in the thick of 2020 protests
07.02.2022
‘Picketing’: Young man gets 10 days in jail for having white-red-white strips on backpack
On January 17, Ilya Dabradzey, a student of Pinsk teacher training college, was detained in Savetski district court of Minsk, the human rights centre Viasna reports.
31.01.2022
Russian citizen featured in newspaper detained
Is being in a photo a crime now?
28.01.2022
US mission to OSCE about Lukashenka’s referendum: ‘International community holds no illusions’
On January 27, Michael Carpenter, US Ambassador to the Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe, delivered a speech regarding the upcoming referendum in Belarus to the OSCE Permanent Council in Vienna.
27.01.2022
Two more criminal cases filed against activist Alena Hnauk who remains under arrest
She was supposed to leave the TDF but never did
27.01.2022
Minsk: Trial of political prisoner Alyaksandr Vasilevich to be held behind closed doors
Savetski district court of Minsk started hearing the case of political prisoner, well-known media businessman Alyaksandr Vasilevich on January 24. He has already spent 17 months in a pre-trial detention centre.
24.01.2022
‘Revolutionary Action’ case sent to court. 10 political prisoners involved in it
The Belarusian Investigative Committee has submitted the case of human rights activist Marfa Rabkova and nine other political prisoners has to court, HRC Viasna reports.
20.01.2022
Police raid journos’ places, editorial office in Mahiliou region
The place of Byalynichy-based journalist Barys Vyrvich was searched on Friday morning, the human rights centre Viasna reports.
14.01.2022