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February 27, Pozirk. <\/em><\/strong>Belarusian authorities continue to systematically violate human rights by arbitrarily arresting people suspected of opposing the <\/em><\/strong>current government, says<\/a> a recent report by the United Nations Group of Independent Experts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe trials conducted do not respect basic fair trial guarantees. The repression of civil society organizations also continued unabated during the reporting period,\u201d the experts said, expressing concerns about several deaths of jailed dissidents since 2020.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

People held on politically-motivated charges and LGBT+ people continue to face discrimination and are subjected to harsher conditions of detention, they added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“Belarusians are not safe even when they flee abroad,” the report said, noting transnational repression targeting Belarusians in exile and journalists. Belarusian authorities keep branding exiled individuals and civil society organizations as \u201cextremists,\u201d opening criminal proceedings against them, seizing their properties, freezing their assets, trying them in absentia and persecuting their families in Belarus, according to the experts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The group urged Minsk to stop politically-motivated reprisals, to uphold the rule of law and human rights and seize all ongoing violations. \u201cBelarusians deserve to live in a country where they can freely express their opinions,\u201d it stressed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The UN Human Rights Council established the Group of Independent Experts in April 2024 to investigate the circumstances and root causes of all rights abuses allegedly committed in Belarus since May 1, 2020. This includes the gender and age dimensions and the impact on victims and survivors.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The 61st session of the UN Human Rights Council (HRC) is expected to hear the experts\u2019 recent report on the human rights situation in Belarus on March 12 in Geneva, Switzerland. The group\u2019s previous report was discussed at the 58th session of the HRC in March 2025, after which its mandate was extended for another year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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UN Human Rights Council to hear experts' report on Belarus on March 12<\/h3>\n
February 23, Pozirk. The 61st session of the UN Human Rights Council (HRC) will hear the Group of Independent Experts' recent report on the human rights situation in Belarus on March 12 in Geneva, Switzerland, according to the schedule posted …<\/div>\n \n