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January 11, Pozirk.<\/em><\/strong> “In 2023, widespread repression of government critics in Belarus continued,” Human Rights Watch said in an annual global report<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It noted that “almost 1,500 people remained behind bars on politically motivated charges, including human rights defenders, journalists, lawyers, opposition politicians, culture workers, trade unionists, and activists. Authorities increasingly subjected political prisoners to incommunicado detention, torture, and other forms of ill-treatment.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“In February, the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) reported on systematic, widespread, and gross human rights violations committed in Belarus, concluding that some may amount to crimes against humanity,” the report reads.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

HRW highlighted specific cases of arrests and detentions of perceived opponents of the regime, reprisals against human rights defenders, lawyers, journalists and students.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

According to the international watchdog, in a humanitarian crisis at the border between Belarus and the European Union, “migrants, including children, continued to be stuck on the Belarusian side of the border and faced serious abuses by Belarusian officials and risk of death.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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