{"id":167708,"date":"2025-12-11T13:59:15","date_gmt":"2025-12-11T10:59:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pozirk.online\/en\/news\/167708\/"},"modified":"2026-03-10T12:05:06","modified_gmt":"2026-03-10T12:05:06","slug":"minsk-human-rights-exploited-as-tool-for-political-pressure","status":"publish","type":"articles","link":"https:\/\/pozirk.online\/en\/news\/167708\/","title":{"rendered":"Minsk: human rights exploited as tool for political pressure"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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December 11, Pozirk. <\/em><\/strong>Belarus opposes the use of human rights as a tool for political pressure, discrimination against sovereign states or interference in their internal affairs, the Belarusian foreign ministry said yesterday in a statement marking Human Rights Day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Belarus meets its human rights obligations responsibly and consistently, guided by both national interests and universally recognized international law, it noted, stressing that no one has a monopoly on human rights.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cBelarus is open to an equitable and respectful international dialogue aimed at genuinely improving the human rights situation in every country, taking into account national, historical and cultural characteristics,\u201d the statement reads.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Human rights defenders and United Nations experts have repeatedly pointed to massive human rights abuses in Belarus since 2020, urging Minsk to end politically-motivated reprisals and release all jailed regime critics.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As of December 11, human rights defenders identified at least 1,227 political prisoners in Belarus but the real number is considerably higher because of many undocumented cases.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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