Currently, there is a system in use in Belarus’s prisons that ‘marks’ prisoners with coloured labels. This practise is designed to easily identify certain individuals among the mass of prisoners and often leads (and...
Child protection is declared as one of the priority areas of social policy in Belarus. However, in reality we are constantly facing cases of torture, cruel and unfair treatment of minors directly by the...
Expert opinion on violations of juvenile rights KOROTKEVICH GRIGORY VIKTOROVICH (17 years old at the time of arrest, Mogilev) Date of birth 11.17.1998 Chapter 1. Brief description: On February 9, 2016, on...
Kupchenya Valeria Andreevna, Born 3/1/2001 Minor age (17 years old at the time of arrest) Convicted on 9/4/2018 under part 4 of article 328 of the Criminal Code of the Republic of Belarus for...
On September 23, 2018, “Our House” launched a campaign dedicated to a complex and serious problem that provokes a public controversy, a campaign to release the “children-328” from prison. “Children-328” are minors at the...
This monitoring is devoted to the status of “malicious violators” (zlostniki) for some prisoners in Belarusian prisons. “Malicious violators” are those who were formally accused of “grave violations of prison rules”, usually two or...
We would like to share a good news: we managed to wrest a teenager from prison and gift him 8-10 years of freedom!
In 2016 and 2019, two young men with long sentences under the “drug article” of the Criminal Code committed suicides in Belarusian correctional facilities. Before their deaths, the prisoners managed to tell about abuses...