Belarus: Violations remain ‘widespread and systematic’, says independent expert group

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UN experts: Belarus government committed crimes against humanity to suppress opposition

The UN Group of Independent Experts on the Human Rights Situation in Belarus reported on Friday that the Belarusian government committed widespread human rights violations, including crimes against humanity against its civilian population to suppress opposition to President Aleksandr Lukashenko. The experts criticized the Belarusian government’s use of widespread measures in 2024 to purge “most potential sources of dissent and opposition.” The n…

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Belarus: Violations remain ‘widespread and systematic’, says independent expert group

A new report from UN Human Rights Council-mandated experts monitoring Belarus on Friday said that authorities have been committing widespread human rights violations, some amounting to crimes against humanity, as part of a systematic campaign to silence political opposition.

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The Belarusian government has committed "widespread violations" of human rights against its own population, some of which amount to crimes against humanity, UN experts accuse in a report published Friday, AFP reports.

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The government of Belarus has committed "generalised violations" of human rights against its population, some of which are equivalent to crimes against humanity, according to a UN expert report published on Friday.

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These violations and crimes are part of a “brutal” attempt to crush all opposition to the regime of President Alexander Lukashenko, the UN Group of Independent Experts on the situation of human rights in Belarus denounced in a press release, on the occasion of the publication of its first report. Created by […]

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The report, which the group of experts on Belarus is submitting to the UN Human Rights Council for the first time since its creation in April 2024, states that "the violations occurred in the context of broader efforts aimed at preserving the power of Alexander Lukashenko."