Belarusian Prison: Where Lives Come to an End
On July 14, 2023, news emerged about a shocking incident at Correctional Facility No. 2 in Bobruisk, where a prisoner jumped out of a window. The inmate had been convicted and sentenced to 13...
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...
Olga Karach is on the Belarusian regime’s hit list
This was reported by the main propaganda newspaper of Alexander Lukashenko, «Belarus Today». One of Belarus’s most notorious propagandists, Andrey Mukovozchik, has declared that Olga Karach should be “eliminated without delay, without unnecessary compassion”...
Month-Long Extension of Detention for Ivan Strashkevich
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...
Lithuanian Migration and the State Security Department of Lithuania filed an appeal against the judgment of the Lithuanian court of first instance’s
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...
Belarusians stood up for Ivan Strashkevich, a Belarusian conscientious objector
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...
The Belarusian conscientious objector, Vitali Dvarashyn, needs a letter of support
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...
Authoritative international anti-war organizations have spoken out in support of Ivan Strashkevich
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...
Interactive Dialogue with Special Rapporteur on Belarus: Addressing the Situation of Belarusian Conscientious Objectors in Lithuania
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,...
Urgent: we need the letter of support for Belarusian CO Ivan Strashkevich in Lithuania
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...
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