At risk of “being attacked and criminally prosecuted” José Alberto Catalão | 22 June 2024 Conscientious objectors to military service are being increasingly persecuted in Russia, Ukraine and Belarus, members of movements opposed to...
Oral statement given at Interactive dialogue with the Special Rapporteur on the human rights of migrants UN Human Rights Council, 56th Session by WRI and Connection e.V. On June 26, 2024 on the occasion...
On June 25, 2024, the trial of human rights defender Olga Karach in absentia will begin on charges of attempted “conspiracy to seize state power by unconstitutional means”. Five “conspirators” will be tried in...
On June 25, 2024 the trial of Veronika Tsapkala, winner of the Charlemagne Prize and the Sakharov Prize of the European Parliament, Olga Karach, Nobel Peace Prize nominee, Yauhen Vilski, acting chairman of the...
In Belarus the human rights defender and the nominee for the Nobel Peace Prize-2024 Olga Karach is accused of “conspiracy to seize power by unconstitutional means“, part 1 of Article 357 of the Belarusian...
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...
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...
And they don’t hesitate to ruin his life totally. Nobody expects anything good from the Belarusian political system – there, it’s enough to merely displease a person in uniform to get at least 24...
We kindly ask you to pay attention to the case of a Belarusian citizen, artisan, feminist, activist, a mother of six children YULIYA PRASANAVA (case ILTU No. 90010145108 within the Migration Department of Lithuania)...
Ukraine: Stop the criminalization of peace and human rights speech and the prosecution of Yurii Sheliazhenko Pacifism is not a crime The undersigned organizations express their deep disappointment and grave concerns about the continuing...