Belarus: Zone of Repression

By Human Rights Watch

Click to expand Image Protesters display broken paper prison bars representing the Belarusian population in prisons and the lack of freedom in Belarus, in Krakow, Poland on August 9, 2022. © 2022 Artur Widak/NurPhoto via AP (Berlin, January 12, 2023) – Belarusian authorities further escalated their crackdown on dissenting voices and doubled down on eviscerating the vestiges of civil society during 2022, Human Rights Watch said today in its World Report 2023. Belarusian authorities have prosecuted human rights defenders, journalists, lawyers, opposition politicians, trade union representatives,…

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