{"id":167103,"date":"2025-12-06T20:11:36","date_gmt":"2025-12-06T17:11:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pozirk.online\/en\/news\/167103\/"},"modified":"2026-03-10T12:05:06","modified_gmt":"2026-03-10T12:05:06","slug":"viasna-documents-nearly-9200-reprisal-victims-since-2020","status":"publish","type":"articles","link":"https:\/\/pozirk.online\/en\/news\/167103\/","title":{"rendered":"Viasna documents nearly 9,200 reprisal victims since 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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December 6, <\/strong>Pozirk<\/strong>. <\/em>At least 9,185 people have been subjected to politically-motivated criminal persecution in Belarus since 2020, says a recent report by the Viasna Human Rights Center.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Belarusian judges handed down 7,840 politically-motivated sentences, including 37 for compulsory psychiatric treatment, the group noted.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Last month, rights defenders added 33 names to their list of political prisoners, bringing the total to 1,222 at the end of November, including 199 women.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since May 2020, 4,288 people have been designated as political prisoners, of whom 3,066 have since been released.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As of early November, at least 182 jailed dissidents were in particularly vulnerable conditions, rights defenders said, citing seriously ill inmates and those held incommunicado.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As of December 6, human rights defenders identified at least 1,218 political prisoners but the real number is considerably higher because many cases go undocumented.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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