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  • Monthly recap: May 2025. Key events, new research, and notable achievements of Belarusian activists and NGOs

    June 03, 2025

    Belarusian experts created a knowledge base on “extremism”, systematizing legal norms and enforcement practices related to “extremism” designations in Belarus.

    The Freelance Journalist Group and Belarusian human rights defenders issued guidelines on resisting recruitment attempts by security services.

    The Viasna Human Rights Center published a timeline review of how solidarity with political prisoners in Belarus has been criminalized since 2020.

    BELPOL released a report on the involvement of the Lukashenka regime in Russia’s aggression against Ukraine, presenting a systematized body of evidence of the regime’s complicity in the war.

    Belarusian NGOs submitted a report to the UN Human Rights Council as part of the Universal Periodic Review (UPR) of Belarus.

    An exhibition of artwork by Belarusian political prisoners titled Art Behind Bars opened in the Latvian Saeima (Parliament).

    Humanitarian Ambulance Service launched a campaign to support LGBT+ activists.

    Solidarity rallies and events took place around the world on the Day of Solidarity with Political Prisoners in Belarus.

    Belarusian human rights groups released a manifesto on the Day of Solidarity with Political Prisoners.

    The 4th Conference of the Belarusian Diaspora was held in Warsaw.

    The Belarusian Association of Journalists and Maryia Kalesnikava were awarded the Günter Wallraff Prize for Press Freedom and Human Rights.

    Human Rights Watch released a report detailing how Belarusian businesses are being targeted as part of political retaliation.

    Belarus ranked 166th in the 2025 Press Freedom Index published by Reporters Without Borders.

    The UN Special Rapporteur on Belarus released a report on the human rights situation in the country covering the period from April 1, 2024, to March 31, 2025.

    The Belarusian Association of Journalists and the Lithuanian Union of Journalists, with support from the Council of Europe, held a forum in Vilnius titled Staying Secure in Unsecure Times: Strategies for Journalists and the Media.

    The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ), in cooperation with the Belarusian Association of Journalists, prepared a report on transnational repression against Belarusian journalists.

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