On July 8, 2024 Brest Regional Court announced the verdict of human rights defender Olga Karach, head of the International Center for civil initiatives “Our House”. Olga Karach was sentenced to 12 years in...
UN Human Rights Council, 56th Session. by WRI and Connection e.V. (03.07.2024) This morning at the UN in Geneva it took place at the 56th session of the UN Human Rights Council, the Interactive...
Dear colleagues and friends, we are pleased to invite you to participate and disseminate WEBINAR July 10th 2024 3:30-5:00 pm CEST OHCHR reporting on the right to conscientious objection to military service With the...
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...