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Belarussian GULAG

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Aleh Barshcheuski: The story of a Belarusian independent journalist and editor of several media outlets who faces up to 7 years in prison in Belarus and is threatened with deportation from Lithuania

Aleh Barshcheuski, an independent journalist and editor, is currently staying illegally in Lithuania because Lithuania has denied him political asylum on absurd grounds and according to the evidence fabricated by the Lithuanian Department of...

Read more 2024-06-23 at 04:32 OUR HOUSE

Mikita Sviryd: The story of a Belarusian deserter in Lithuania, stuck between the threat of death penalty in Belarus and illegal refugee status in Lithuania

Mikita Sviryd, a Belarusan deserter who, when the war started in Ukraine, fled illegally to Lithuania because he was afraid that the Belarusan army would go to Ukraine to help Russia. Today Mikita is...

Read more 2024-06-22 at 11:15 OUR HOUSE

Prisoners in occupational therapy centres are getting prison sentences added en masse

In Belarus, therapeutic and labour preventive centres (LTPs) are places where alcoholics are sent for “rehabilitation”. However, this rehabilitation consists of poor-quality food, labour therapy with zero wages, and the use of violence. At...

Read more 2022-05-05 at 21:43 Svetlana Gordeeva

Bloody production: we have studied the range of enterprises under the Department of Corrections of the Ministry of Internal Affairs

Belarusians, sentenced to imprisonment, are forced to work in low-paid jobs in the enterprises under the colonies. The Department of Corrections of the Ministry of Internal Affairs includes 15 enterprises (one agricultural), four branches...

Read more 2022-04-29 at 00:28 Svetlana Gordeeva

ICCI “Our House” has drawn up a petition to stop the slave labour of children in Belarus

On World Day Against Child Labor, the organization began collecting signatures for a petition against the exploitation of minors in prisons, colonies and specialised institutions of the country. The problem is determined because children...

Read more 2021-06-12 at 23:37 Svetlana Gordeeva

We ask you to stop the slave labour of children in Belarus!

12 June marks the World Day Against Child Labour Of course, no one forces Belarusian children to work in factories, in the fields, at construction sites, and it may seem that the problem of...

Read more 2021-06-12 at 18:20 Svetlana Gordeeva

Electrocution, being hit by cars and slab collapses. What causes the most deaths of Belarusians in the workplace

While the Belarusian authorities spend money on riot police, everything else fades into the background. Including labor protection at enterprises. The factories that the country is so proud of are forced to operate with...

Read more 2021-05-02 at 19:31 Svetlana Gordeeva

Follow up: the strange relationship between Ramzan Kadyrov and the Lukashenko family over the past year

This monitoring seeks to draw attention to the initiated but very intense relationship between the Lukashenko family and Ramzan Kadyrov. First and foremost, the close contacts between Viktor Lukashenko, son and aide to the...

Read more 2021-02-12 at 21:42 Svetlana Gordeeva

Monitoring of repressions against snowmen and dolls in Belarus

We present to your attention the monitoring of repressions against snowmen and dolls in Belarus, prepared by the human rights defenders and activists of “Nash Dom”. We would like to emphasize that the manufacture...

Read more 2021-02-01 at 15:17 Svetlana Gordeeva

MONITORING of state-owned CRC (compulsory rehabilitation centres)

MONITORING of state-owned CRC (compulsory rehabilitation centres) for alcohol and drug addicts in Belarus, June 2020 Content: Introduction Chapter number 1. Interesting facts about state-owned CRCs. Chapter number 2. The slave labour of people...

Read more 2020-06-02 at 17:42 Aleh Barshcheuski

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2025-05-08

Five Criteria for Lasting and Just Peace Agreements on Europe Day

On Europe Day — May 9, a webinar will be held to discuss the question: What kind of peace agreements for Ukraine can be not only durable but also just? Based on an...

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