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One Year of Crackdown on Viasna
17 September 2021 marked one year since the beginning of the crackdown on Viasna, FIDH’s organisation member and Belarus’ leading human rights NGO. Jointly with Viasna, FIDH organised a global rally under the hashtag #FREEVIASNA to stand in solidarity for our imprisoned colleagues and Belarus civil society.
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Ongoing judicial harassment against Nasta Loika
The Observatory for the Protection of Human Rights Defenders, a partnership of FIDH and the World Organisation Against Torture (OMCT), requests your urgent intervention in the following situation in Belarus.
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Months after arbitrary detention, Viasna’s members must be released
It has been a month since law enforcement officers of Belarus arbitrarily detained Viasna’s leadership. This brings the total number of Viasna members behind bars to seven, as four others had been detained previously.
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Global Letter in solidarity with the Belarusian civil society
161 human rights organisations demand an end to the repression against the Human Rights Center Viasna and all other human rights defenders in Belarus. We condemn the systematic arbitrary arrests, beatings and acts of torture they are subjected to.
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Ales Bialiatski, Valiantsin Stefanovic and Uladz Labkovich of Viasna detained (updated on July 19)
At least 13 human rights activists were detained, including eleven Viasna employees, as a result of large-scale attack on human rights defenders in Belarus.
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OMCT: Ongoing crackdown on human rights defenders, journalists and civil society organisations in Belarus
The Observatory for the Protection of Human Rights Defenders, a partnership of the World Organisation Against Torture (OMCT) and FIDH, has received new information and requests your urgent intervention in the following situation in Belarus.
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Following the adoption of the UN resolution on Belarus, Viasna’s Board member Valiantsin Stefanovic detained along with other human rights defenders
On the morning following the adoption of the UN resolution condemning the human rights situation in the country, Belarusian authorities conducted a large-scale raid on human rights defenders.
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OMCT: Coordinated searches and detentions of journalists and human rights defenders in Belarus
The Observatory for the Protection of Human Rights Defenders, a partnership of the World Organisation Against Torture (OMCT) and FIDH, requests your urgent intervention in the following situation in Belarus.
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FIDH and Viasna condemn new attacks on independent media threatening the liberty of expression in Belarus
Yesterday, law enforcement officials organised a widescale crackdown on in-dependent media in Belarus. Offices of at least five media outlets were raided and a number of their employees were detained.
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Politically Motivated Administrative Proceedings: Standards and Reality in Contemporary Belarus
This report by Viasna HRC summarises the observation of administrative proceedings in politically motivated cases from the beginning of 2020 to the end of March 2021.
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End reprisals against human rights defenders
The Belarusian authorities are conducting a targeted campaign of intimidation against civil society in an effort to silence all critics of the government. Following the disputed presidential election on 9 August 2020, hundreds of thousands of people across the country took to the streets to protest the announced result.
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Judicial harassment against Viasna Human Rights Centre
The Observatory for the Protection of Human Rights Defenders, a partnership of FIDH and the World Organisation Against Torture (OMCT) requests your urgent intervention in the following situation in Belarus.