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...
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...
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...
The Migration is requesting to uphold their decision on the Belarusian conscientious objector, Vitali Dvarashyn. Let us remind you, that on April 26, 2023, the Lithuanian Migration took a decision based on the reference...
About 10 Belarusians wrote to the Lithuanian migration service requesting to reconsider the case of a Belarusian conscientious objector, Ivan Strashkevich, and to release him from detention in a refugee camp. To remind, the...
PETITION We are asking you to render help and send a letter of support for another conscientious objector from Belarus who is under a threat of a long-term of imprisonment in Belarus for his...
On July 4, 2023, authoritative international anti-war organizations, the European Bureau for Conscientious Objection and the War Resisters’ International (an international anti-war organization founded in 1921, headquartered in London, with branches in over 30...
Berlin’s domestic intelligence agency („Verfassungsschutz Berlin“) is watching one of the few organizations from the German peace movement that has been opposing Russia’s criminal war of aggression since the beginning of the Russian invasion....
At the 53rd Regular Session of the United Nations Human Rights Council, Conscience and Peace Tax International (CPTI) delivered an oral statement during the Interactive Dialogue with Special Rapporteur on Belarus on July 5,...
The Russian President’s Decree No. 647 of 21.09.2022 “On declaring partial mobilisation in the Russian Federation” effectively deprived servicemen of the possibility to leave military service of their own will while mobilised or under...