The UN Group of Independent Experts on the human rights situation in Belarus (hereafter the GIE Belarus) invites individuals, groups and organizations to submit information and documentation relevant ...

GENEVA – UN experts* today expressed grave concern over allegations of prolonged incommunicado detention and detention conditions at a Navapolatsk Correctional Colony in Belarus.“Information we have r...

61st regular session of the Human Rights Council (23 February – 31 March 2026)

61st regular session of the Human Rights Council (23 February – 31 March 2026)

GENEVA  – Independent human rights experts* today called on Belarusian authorities to immediately release Viktoria Kulsha, imprisoned in Zarechye Correctional Colony No. 24, in order to save her life....

Lithuania's foreign ministry said on Monday it has filed a case against Belarus at the International Court of Justice, accusing its neighbour of orchestrating a migrant crisis.

GENEVA – Independent human rights experts* today raised serious concerns about an alleged practice of Belarusian criminal courts transferring accused persons to coercive psychiatric treatment in retaliation for their exercise of civil and political rights.“We have received reports about at least 33 individuals, including five women, transferred for coercive psychiatric treatment because they expressed dissent with the authorities since the beginning of the political crisis around the 2020 presidential elections,” the experts said.