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Letters from Lukashenka’s Prisoners: Volha Takarchuk
Volha Takarchuk runs a political vlog with almost 37,000 subscribers. She was detained several times after the August 2020 election, but on the morning of 19 May her apartment was searched, some of her belongings were seized, and she was detained. She has remained in prison since then.
Letters from Lukashenka’s Prisoners: Aliaksandr Vasilevich
Aliaksandr Vasilevich is a businessman, owner of the Vondel/Hepta advertising agency and the “Ў” Gallery, which was formerly one of the main cultural centres in Belarus. He is also the co-founder of the online media Kyky.org and TheVillage Belarus. He was detained on 28 August 2020 by representatives of the Financial Investigation Department of the State Control Committee.
Letters from Lukashenka’s Prisoners: Maryia Kalesnikava
In September 2020, the prominent Belarusian opposition figure Maryia Kalesnikava was abducted from Minsk and taken to the border where security forces tried to expel her from the country; she ripped up her passport in defiance. In the days that followed she was charged with incitement to undermine national security and placed in pre-trial detention. The letter that follows was written by Maryia Kalesnikava to her father on 16 July 2021, the day the Supreme Court rejected her complaint regarding the extension of her detention until 1 August.
Вимушений покинути Білорусь через захисту прав людини
12 квітня 2021 року білоруська влада змусила українського правозахисника Володимира Яворського залишити країну протягом 48 годин і попередила його не повертатися протягом десяти років. Його справа – ще один приклад безпрецедентного нападу на білоруське громадянське суспільство. Освітній Будинок прав людини в Чернігові (EHRHC) та HRHF поговорили з Яворським, який зараз проживає в Україні, про його допит, загрози його родині та його вислання.
Expelled from Belarus for defending human rights
On 12 April 2021, Belarusian authorities forced Ukrainian human rights defender Volodymyr Yavorskyy to leave the country within 48 hours warned him to not return within ten years. His case is another example of the unprecedented attack on Belarusian civil society. Educational Human Rights House Chernihiv (EHRHC) and HRHF spoke to Yavorskyy, now living in Ukraine, about his interrogation, the threats made against his family, and his expulsion.
Belarus: Living in an endless August
“Crimes against humanity are being committed in the centre of Europe right now, in the 21st century, all because Belarusians want free and fair elections.”
Павел Левінаў: «Можа прыйсці да ўлады добры кіраўнік, эканаміст… Але ў правах чалавека ён – нуль! Давядзецца вучыць»
Інтэрв’ю з віцебскім праваабаронцам Паўлам Левінавым.
Леанід Судаленка: «Мне падабаецца мая праца. Я прыходжу сюды нават у выходныя. Люблю працаваць у нядзелю: у цішыні, калі ў офісе няма людзей…»
Інтэрв’ю праваабаронцы Леаніда Судаленкі Беларускаму дому правоў чалавека.
Алег Агееў: «Патрабаванні праваабаронцаў да любой улады – нязменныя: павага чалавечай годнасці і выкананне правоў чалавека»
Інтэрв’ю Алега Агеева для Беларускага дома правоў чалавека імя Барыса Звозскава.