While their release brings long-overdue relief to them, their families, their colleagues and the human rights community around the world, the Observatory stresses that this step remains insufficient as long as hundreds of human rights defenders, journalists, lawyers, activists, and political opponents remain arbitrarily detained in Belarus on politically motivated charges solely for exercising their fundamental freedoms, and repressions against Belarusian dissidents continue unabated. // 15.12.2025
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// 20.09.2025
We continue to emphasize that every death of a political prisoner behind bars is the result of a systemic State policy of inhumane treatment of people based on political motives. // 11.09.2025
It is not a question of individual incidents, but a whole system where gender-based violence and abuse have become the norm, especially against female political prisoners. // 20.08.2025
