Report protest action in Ghent on Tuesday 27 June against the expulsion by Lithuania of a Belarusian peace activist and against the persecution of conscientious objectors in Belarus. On June 27, a group of...
Vitaliy Dvarashin has been working as a long-haul truck driver in Lithuania since 2012. In March 2022, he permanently relocated to Lithuania due to concerns about conscription into the army and involvement in the...
On June 23, 2023, the European Bureau for Conscientious Objection and the War Resisters’ International (WRI), an international anti-war organization founded in 1921 with headquarters in London and branches in over thirty countries, issued...
As of last Friday, June 23rd, the Movement of Conscientious Objectors has been officially labeled as a “foreign agent” in the Russian Federation. This action, while a demonstration of the effectiveness of the work...
On May 11, 2023, the main propaganda newspaper of Alexander Lukashenko, “Belarus Today” (formerly known as “Sovetskaya Belorussiya”), published an article featuring caricatures of Olga Karach. The article, titled “Deteriorating Attitude Towards Dissidents-Freeloaders in...
In Belarus, in order to be employed, in addition to other documents, male citizens are required to present their military service card. According to the regulatory documents of the Ministry of Labour and Social...
On February 24, 2022, as a lot of other Belarusians, human rights defenders of Our House woke up around 5 a.m. from persistent phone calls and texts “war has started, Russia attacked Ukraine!”. Later,...
When I was 13, my classmate, whom we all called “fat” because she was overweight, decided to tint her eyelashes. It wasn’t real makeup; she simply applied some mascara to her lashes. While she...
The Belarusian regime is tenaciously adopting all the worst practices of the Soviet regime, including public kangaroo courts and show trial over those who want to be different from the rest. It is not...
It turns out, there are secret groups of people in Belarus, that are protected from being conscripted for compulsory military service, and they are exempted from it by the order of Lukashenka. One such...