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Aug 261 min read

One of imprisoned REP leaders was released

One of the oldest political prisoners in Belarus and a union leader Vasil Berasneu, 74, was released following an amnesty.

Aug 192 min read

Belarusian trade union activists have won recognition by UN of their rights violations after 5 years

The UN Human Rights Committee found the Belarusian Government guilty of violating the right to peaceful assembly of three independent union

Jun 252 min read

Female trade union activist waits for new trial having spent 70 days in punitive isolation ward

The political prisoner and the REP union activist Palina Sharenda-Panasiuk, who is currently held in a pre-trial detention facility, awaits

Jan 301 min read

The activist of the REP trade union is at liberty

According to Brest newspaper "Viasna," Zinaida Mikhniuk, a 62-year-old trade union leader of the democratic Trade Union of Radioelectronic I

Jan 181 min read

Political prisoner Vatslau Areshka turns 69 today

Trade union activist and editor of the bulletin of the Belarusian trade union of workers of the radio-electronic industry Vatslau Areshka is

Dec 11, 20231 min read

A trade union activist became a laureate of the Human Rights Award

The laureates of the Human Rights Community Award for 2023 have been announced. The awarding ceremony took place on December 10th in Vilnius

Nov 22, 20231 min read

The date of appeal against the sentence of the REP trade union activist is known

On October 9th , Judge Stanislau Ivanyutsenka found Palina Sharenda-Panasiuk guilty of "malicious disobedience to the colony administration"

Nov 1, 20232 min read

The trade union leader of the REP was returned to the colony

Maksim Pazniakou, interim chairman of the Belarusian Congress of Democratic Trade Unions (BKDP), told "Svaboda" about the situation with pol

Oct 10, 20232 min read

Political prisoner-activist Sharenda-Panasiuk was sentenced to another year of imprisonment

The trial, which started on October 2nd in the court of Rechytsa district, became a new stage in the difficult fate of this public activist

Oct 6, 20232 min read

The imprisoned trade union leader was hospitalized, he needs a kidney transplant

Vasil Berasneu, a political prisoner in the "case of independent trade unions", serving his sentence in Mahiliou penal colony No. 15, was ur

Oct 4, 20232 min read

The next stage of the trial over the activist of the REP trade union has started

The next stage of the trial over the activist of the REP trade union Polina Sharenda-Panasiuk, who refuses to recognize the legitimacy of th

Sep 21, 20231 min read

The public and trade union activist is tried again

The trial of political prisoner Palina Sharenda-Panasiuk from Brest will start on October 2 at 10 am. Palina is charged under Part 1 of Arti

Aug 31, 20231 min read

A trade union activist has ended her hunger strike

The demands of the imprisoned trade union activist Palina Sharenda-Panasiuk for more humane conditions of detention have been met, the Human

Jul 21, 20231 min read

An activist of the REP trade union was beaten in the colony

According to human rights activists "Viasna", political activist Palina Sharenda-Panasiuk was beaten in the penal colony № 24, against whom

Jul 18, 20232 min read

Another criminal case was opened against the activist of the REP trade union

Political prisoner and activist of the Belarusian Trade Union of Radioelectronic Industry (REP) Palina Sharenda-Panasiuk refused to undergo

Jun 19, 20231 min read

The activist of the REP trade union was sentenced to two years of restricted freedom

Halina Smirnova, activist of the liquidated Belarusian trade union of radioelectronic industry workers (REP), was sentenced to two years of

Jun 6, 20231 min read

Persecution of former trade union activists in Belarus continues

In Uzda, Minsk region, local law enforcement forces are persecuting former trade union activist Viktar Kryval. Local authorities have admini

May 13, 20232 min read

Persecution and mistreatment of trade union activists does not stop: The story of Viktar Krival

On April 8, 2023, three officers of the Uzda police raided the house of a former activist of the union REP, which was liquidated in Belarus

May 5, 20231 min read

REP and SPB activists were put on the "List of Extremists"

On May 5, the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Belarus prepared the traditional Friday update of the "List of citizens of Belarus, foreign ci

Apr 3, 20231 min read

Sentences for the leaders of the REP trade union were upheld

On 5 January political prisoners Hennadz Fiadynich, Vasil Berasneu and Vatslau Areshka, accused in the "REP trade union case", were sentence