{"id":93057,"date":"2024-06-27T21:10:33","date_gmt":"2024-06-27T18:10:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pozirk.online\/en\/news\/93057\/"},"modified":"2026-02-24T20:40:57","modified_gmt":"2026-02-24T20:40:57","slug":"belarus-scores-last-by-torture-index-for-fifth-consecutive-year","status":"publish","type":"articles","link":"https:\/\/pozirk.online\/en\/news\/93057\/","title":{"rendered":"Belarus worst-performing in eradicating torture for fifth consecutive year"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"block-image block-image-normal\">\n\n  <img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1280\" height=\"853\" src=\"https:\/\/pozirk.online\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/\u0442\u044e\u0440\u044c\u043c\u0430-\u0441\u043e\u043b\u043d\u0446\u0435-\u043f\u0438\u043a\u0441\u0430\u0431\u0430\u0439-e1700140578746.jpg\" class=\"attachment-full size-full\" alt=\"\" \/>\n  <figcaption>\n  \n       <div class=\"block-image__author\">\n                <span>(pixabay.com)<\/span>\n    <\/div>\n     <\/figcaption>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>June 27, <em>Pozirk.<\/em><\/strong> Experts have awarded Belarus a junk grade for its failure to prohibit torture, the Viasna Human Rights Center <a href=\"https:\/\/spring96.org\/en\/news\/115614\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">reported<\/a>, quoting the Civic Solidarity Platform&#8217;s working group.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The country is bottom-ranked in the Prohibition of Torture Index for the fifth straight year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The working group includes members of human rights and civic organizations from Armenia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Moldova, Russia and Ukraine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Belarus scored -93.83 during the 2023 survey and -95 a year earlier.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;The dynamics of the Prohibition of Torture Index in Belarus were primarily influenced by the refinement of the Index parameters following the pilot measurement in 2019, and subsequently by the 2021 decline in indicators reflecting the criminalization of torture in domestic legislation in Belarus and the impact of video surveillance in places of detention on torture prevention. Over the past two years, the Index has remained almost invariably low in Belarus,&#8221; according to the survey.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In July, Justice Hub reported that the number of repression victims in Belarus has exceeded 136,000 and there were sufficient grounds to believe that authorities had committed crimes against humanity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"insert-block\">\n\n    <div class=\"insert-block__img\">\n                                <label class=\"insert-block__tag--mobile\"> Politics<\/label>\n\n                <\/div>\n    <div class=\"insert-block__text\">\n                    <label class=\"insert-block__tag\">Politics<\/label>\n                <h3 class=\"insert-block__title\">Nonprofit counts over 136,000 repression victims in Belarus<\/h3>\n        <div class=\"insert-block__descr\">July 26, BPN. The number of victims of reprisals and terror in Belarus has exceeded 136,000 and there are sufficient grounds to believe that the authorities have committed crimes against humanity, according to Justice Hub. The Vilnius-based nonprofit analyzed &quot;serious &#8230;<\/div>\n        <a class=\"insert-block__btn-block\" href=\"\/en\/news\/47764\">\n            <button class=\"btn\">\n                <div class='btn__text'>Read the article<\/div>\n            <\/button>\n        <\/a>\n    <\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>June 27, Pozirk. Experts have awarded Belarus a junk grade for its failure to prohibit torture, the Viasna Human Rights Center reported, quoting the Civic Solidarity Platform&#8217;s working group. The country is bottom-ranked in the Prohibition of Torture Index for the fifth straight year. The working group includes members of human rights and civic organizations [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":75,"featured_media":49661,"template":"","rubric":[15],"class_list":["post-93057","articles","type-articles","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","rubric-society"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Belarus worst-performing in eradicating torture for fifth consecutive year | Pozirk<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"June 27, Pozirk. 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