{"id":47059,"date":"2023-05-30T22:27:21","date_gmt":"2023-05-30T19:27:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/api.pozirk.online\/articles\/activist-tells-u-n-rapporteur-about-belarus-crackdown\/"},"modified":"2026-02-24T20:29:13","modified_gmt":"2026-02-24T20:29:13","slug":"activist-tells-u-n-rapporteur-about-belarus-crackdown","status":"publish","type":"articles","link":"https:\/\/pozirk.online\/en\/news\/47059\/","title":{"rendered":"Activist tells U.N. rapporteur about Belarus crackdown"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>May 30, <span>BPN.<\/span><\/b> U.N. Special Rapporteur Cl\u00e9ment Nyaletsossi Voule has met with experts from Europe and Central Asia in Vienna to discuss the rights to freedom of peaceful assembly and association.<\/p>\n<p> Natalla Sacunkievi\u010d, of the Viasna Human Rights Center, told Voule that public protest was virtually impossible in Belarus. At yesterday\u2019s meeting, she also described the police\u2019s use of plastic construction ties to restrain detainees, which causes pain and harm.<\/p>\n<p> Sacunkievi\u010d said Viasna\u2019s last field observation of a demonstration was Aug. 9, 2020, the main day of voting in the presidential election, after which monitoring continued online for security reasons. She said the United Nations trusts their expertise and assessments.<\/p>\n<p> Voule presented a report at the 50th session of the U.N. Human Rights Council in July 2022, highlighting the militarized law-enforcement responses to protests and the use of excessive force in many countries.<\/p>\n<p>Viasna demanded that the Belarusian authorities stop persecuting citizens for exercising their rights on May 21, the symbolic Day of Solidarity with political prisoners in Belarus. As of today, 1,496 people have been recognized as such by human rights groups.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>May 30, BPN. U.N. 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