Trial of a Draft Dodger: The “Lida Precedent”
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...
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...
The essence of the criminal re-trial investigation: on May 29, 2022, the media resource Nasha Niva published an article with an interview of a former Belarusian enforcer, Ihar Makar, in which he, together with...
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...
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...
On July 6, 2023, Vilnius District Court extended the detention period of Lithuanian citizen Mantas Danielius, accused of espionage in favor of Belarus, for another two months. In addition, an investigation is currently underway...
PETITION We kindly request your assistance in sending a letter of support to Ivan Strashkevich, a conscientious objector from Belarus. Currently, Ivan is facing the prospect of a long prison sentence in Belarus for...
On July 1, 2023, three windows in the Belarusian Embassy in The Hague were broken, and somebody wrote on a wall of the embassy “Luka is a terrorist” and “Long Live Belarus”. A 31-year-old...
Belarusian Ivan Strashkevich served as a border guard in Belarus, but witnessing the brutality of the Lukashenko regime during the suppression of peaceful protests in 2020, he refused to continue his service and left...