UN experts: the justice system is used to silence government critics ↗
An independent expert group describes violations from arrest through supervision after release.
Source: Reuters / UN experts ↗INDEPENDENT SPACE · BELARUS
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EU expands sanctions following the 2025 presidential election ↗
The Council of the EU added 25 people and seven entities to its sanctions lists, citing repression and the circumstances of the election.
Source: Council of the EU ↗UN documents torture and ill-treatment in detention ↗
UN experts report systematic human rights violations in Belarus. The source explains their findings and method.
Source: UN Human Rights Office ↗PRIMARY SOURCES / 09
Open document library ↗Documents you can verify.
COI / EUAA / 2026-05-12
Belarus: Political Opposition and Dissent
Country of origin information on opposition, border controls, surveillance, proceedings and people abroad.
Open source ↗Report / OSCE/ODIHR / 2020-11-05
Moscow Mechanism: Belarus presidential election 2020
Rapporteur report on alleged violations before, during and after the 9 August 2020 election.
Open source ↗UN report / OHCHR / 2022-03-09
Belarus: scale and patterns of human rights violations
UN findings on the scale and patterns of violations after the 2020 election, including detention and torture.
Open source ↗Abuses must be called by their name.
Articles on the protest crackdown, disappearances and punishment for independent speech. Arguments with sources.
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DOCUMENTED ARCHIVE
2020 was not the beginning.
Disappearances of opponents, protest crackdowns, torture and attacks on independent voices: 21 documented events linked to the OSCE, UN, PACE and human rights groups.