Lawyer, academic, and writer Maksim Znak remained held incommunicado serving a 10-year sentence in a medium-security penal colony imposed on spurious national security grounds…

A board member of the Union of Poles in Belarus, Andrzej Poczobut continued to be held in solitary confinement, serving an eight-year prison term in connection with his coverage of 2020 anti-government protests in Belarus…

PEN Belarus member and renowned philosopher Uladzimir Mackievič continued to serve a five-year prison sentence imposed on spurious public order and national security grounds in a closed-door trial on 23 June 2022. Detained on 4 August 2021 when the Belarusian KGB…

Writer, PEN Belarus member, human rights activist and Nobel Peace Prize winner Ales Bialiatski continued to serve a 10-year prison sentence in a medium-security penal colony in Horki – a facility known for inmates being beaten and subjected to hard labour…

 Journalist, writer and poet, Kaciaryna Andrejeva (real name Bachvałava) was arrested in Minsk in November 2020 while livestreaming a peaceful protest and sentenced to two years in prison in…