Deportation
Principles, procedure, rights, consequences The aim of this review is to provide understanding of the procedure of deportation and what sort of defence is available for a person who is under the risk of...
Humanitarian Delivery to Warsaw: Our House Sends Aid for Belarusian Women – Former Political Prisoners
As of today, more and more political prisoners leave jails in Belarus after having served their full term of imprisonment. Most often, they have to leave Belarus, since the risks of initiation of new...
Torn Flags and Broken Trust: Family Disloyalty Unveiling Social Tensions in Belarus
A 20-year-old young man was sentenced to one and a half years in prison for tearing down four state flags. This incident highlights many of the problems within contemporary Belarusian society. It is particularly...
Prison from Which It’s Hard to Come Out Alive
At the beginning of this summer, a prisoner died in the Detention Center for Offenders (DCO) at Okrestina Street in Minsk.The official cause of death remains undisclosed, but witnesses claim that he passed away...
How the Belarusian Regime Killed a Renowned Artist
Recently, in Belarus, one of the most prominent artists of the country, the political prisoner Ales Pushkin, passed away in prison. Ales died in the intensive care unit, but further details surrounding his death...
The Sentence for Ignoring the Enlistment Office
July of this year has turned out to be particularly “fruitful” for the state’s reprisals against draft evaders. A resident of Chashniki District (Vitebsk Region) was convicted under criminal charges solely for refusing to...
Belarusian Prison: Where Lives Come to an End
On July 14, 2023, news emerged about a shocking incident at Correctional Facility No. 2 in Bobruisk, where a prisoner jumped out of a window. The inmate had been convicted and sentenced to 13...
Trial of a Draft Dodger: The “Lida Precedent”
On July 6, 2023, in Lida (Grodno region), a 28-year-old man was sentenced to one and a half years of imprisonment for draft evasion. This may seem to be nonsense, because in Belarus, individuals...
Olga Karach is on the Belarusian regime’s hit list
This was reported by the main propaganda newspaper of Alexander Lukashenko, «Belarus Today». One of Belarus’s most notorious propagandists, Andrey Mukovozchik, has declared that Olga Karach should be “eliminated without delay, without unnecessary compassion”...
Month-Long Extension of Detention for Ivan Strashkevich
Ivan Strashkevich, a Belarusian who previously left the Belarusian army to distance himself from military structures, will be staying in Lithuania for another month. However, just like the previous month, he will spend it...
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