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On behalf of the VISA-FREE travel campaign “Go Europe! Go Belarus!” and NGO Belarus Watch, we would like to invite you to a public lecture by Iryna Sushko, a prominent Ukrainian expert on EU visa and migration policy.

The lecture “Ways for the Eastern Partnership States to Join Visa-Free Europe” will take place on 11 May at 2 pm at the Belarusian Human Rights House in exile in Vilnius (Latako str. 3).

Capital punishment in the Republic of Belarus continues to violate international human rights standards and mechanisms, and denies basic human dignities

Political prisoner Siarhei Kavalenka (right), who has recently stopped hunger strike, is currently held in a psychiatric hospital “Navinki”, where he has been sent to for a forced psychiatric examination. The activist’s wife speaks about his current condition and about the way he was treated in the Vitsba-3 colony.

Arbitrary detention is used in Belarus against political opponents and persons exercising their freedoms of conscience, opinion and expression. The use of arbitrary detention as a tool of systematic repression of critical voices constitutes a serious violation of human rights as the United Nations Working Group on Arbitrary Detention underlines. We urge the authorities of the Republic of Belarus to release all political prisoners and to compensate them for the harm suffered.

At least 13 political prisoners remain behind bars in Belarus, two weeks after the release of the former presidential candidate Andrei Sannikau.

Alena Lebiadzinskaya (right), a last year’s Minsk metro blast survivor, says she was abducted by two unidentified men in plain clothes, who injured her and took her to the police for holding up a poster reading “The government refused to help”.

Belarussian opposition politician and 2010 presidential candidate Andrei Sannikau was released from prison on Saturday.

Former political prisoner, 23-year-old Aliaksandr Malchanau (right) was found guilty of stealing scrap metal from a closed workshop of a metal stamping plant. The ex-prisoner had no other ways to make a living.

Political prisoner Siarhei Kavalenka, who has been on a hunger strike since 20 December 2011, is being force-fed. He has recently been transferred from Minsk prison to a psychiatric hospital of Vitsba-3 colony not far from his hometown Vitsebsk. Human rights defenders call upon the Belarusian authorities to stop the political persecution of Siarhei Kavalenka.