{"id":174292,"date":"2026-02-04T18:38:20","date_gmt":"2026-02-04T15:38:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pozirk.online\/en\/news\/174292\/"},"modified":"2026-03-09T20:10:49","modified_gmt":"2026-03-09T20:10:49","slug":"belarus-political-prisoners-face-ill-treatment-isolation-hrw","status":"publish","type":"articles","link":"https:\/\/pozirk.online\/en\/news\/174292\/","title":{"rendered":"Belarus\u2019 political prisoners face ill-treatment, isolation – HRW"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

February 4, Pozirk.<\/em> <\/strong>Five years after countrywide protests against the rigged 2020 presidential elections, politically-motivated repression continued. The government targets all forms of dissent and uses politically motivated charges against rights activists and journalists, Human Rights Watch said<\/a> in its annual report for 2025.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cPolitical prisoners continue to face ill-treatment, isolation, and torture. Some have been held incommunicado for extended periods of time, which amounts to torture and may constitute enforced disappearance,\u201d the report says. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Authorities continued to bring politically motivated charges against civil society actors, including rights groups, by falsely labeling them \u201cextremist\u201d or \u201cterrorist.\u201d During 2025, the authorities designated dozens of activists as \u201cpersons involved in extremist activities\u201d or \u201cterrorist activities.\u201d Any interaction with such organizations or individuals is a prosecutable offense, according to the report.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2025, Belarusian authorities increasingly used their \u201cspecial procedure\u201d to conduct criminal investigations and trials in absentia against dozens of exiled activists. Law enforcement agents raided activists\u2019 homes in Belarus, detained and questioned their relatives, and seized their property.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Belarus facing systematic erosion of rule of law, human rights lawyer tells US Congress<\/h3>\n
February 4, Pozirk. Belarus has been subjecting lawyers to politically-motivated persecution since the controversial 2020 presidential election, Jasmine D. Cameron, an international human rights lawyer, told a US Congress hearing on human rights in Belarus yesterday. Authorities often equate lawyers …<\/div>\n \n