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May 14, Pozirk.<\/em><\/strong> At least 161 people, including 50 women, were convicted in politically-motivated criminal cases in April, almost as many as in March, when 165 such convictions were reported, according to the Viasna Human Rights Center.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Human rights activists have details of 44 such cases.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The highest number of convictions, 83, was in Minsk, followed by the Brest region with 36 convictions, the Hrodna region with 12 convictions, and the Homiel and Minsk regions with 10 convictions each. Judges handed down eight politically-motivated convictions in the Mahilo\u016d region and two in the Viciebsk region.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Viasna: scale of repression against government opponents critical<\/h3>\n
May 7, Pozirk. Human rights in Belarus continue to be widely and systematically violated, the Viasna Human Rights Center said. Repression of the regime's political opponents and dissidents remains critically high, according to its report covering April 2024. At the …<\/div>\n \n