15:30 10 years in prison after confession under torture

Pavel Plaksa from Minsk was sentenced to 10 years in a medium security penal colony.

14:40 Filip Kaczmarek: EU to extend sanctions against Lukashenka

Totalitarian regimes understand only decisive measures, only tough and strong steps.

13:47 Ukraine creates professional army

Our Southern neighbour abolishes obligatory military draft. Ukrainian soldiers will serve in the army only under a contract.

13:16 Gaidukou: My case can get absurdly falsified

The mother of the arrested activist received a letter from him.

13:11 Sadists from the Lenin police department are still free

The indictment on the case of the abuse of power has not yet been handed in to the personnel of the Minsk Lenin district’s police department.

12:02 Police is looking for Ales Makaeu

In the evening on 4 December a policeman came home to the deputy chairman of the Razam movement Ales Makaeu who wanted to have a conversation with the activist.  

11:36 Political prisoner Frantskevich released from disciplinary cell

He was transferred to a disciplinary cell for the second time “failure to obey orders of prison staff”.

11:21 Front Line Defenders: Tax Office presses on human rights activists

Human rights activist Tatyana Ravyaka faces the risk of judicial harassment in connection with Ales Byalyatski's case.

11:04 Belarusian Republican Youth Union suggests legitimizing child labor

The country desperately lacks working force? It is not a problem.

10:50 Andrei Haidukou's friend summoned to KGB

The leader of the unregistered Union of Young Intellectuals from Navapolatsk has been summoned to the Vitebsk KGB to give evidence in Andrei Haidukou's case.

9:58 Ales Pushkin gets 12 days in custody

The artist was tried behind closed doors.

9:44 Associated Press: Belarusian workers are fleeing from slavery to Russia

Workers of Borisovdrev rush to change jobs before it will be banned.

9:07 Journalists detained for a photo of Latushka

The administration of Minsk’s club Center use threats demanding to delete the pictures of the Belarusian ambassador to France.

0:52 Noise for Belarus in London

The Belarusian embassy in London was picketed ahead of the International Human Rights Day.