Monitoring of violations of cultural rights and human rights of cultural figures. Belarus, January – March 2025

This report is based on aggregated information collected by the PEN Belarus monitoring group during the first three months of 2025 from open sources, persona...

Take Action for Kaciaryna Andrejeva (Bachvałava) (Belarus)

Name: Kaciaryna Andrejeva (Bachvałava) Occupation: Journalist, writer, poet Situation: Imprisoned #KaciarynaAndrejeva #ImprisonedWriter And whenever I stray ...

Statement: Hate Speech and Ethnic Intolerance Are Unadmissable

[Pareiškimas lietuvių kalba yra čia] [Заява па-беларуску тут] We, PEN Belarus, and other human rights and cultural organizations that have signed this statem...

Imprisoned writers (37)

Imprisoned writers - Belarusian writers, translators, and literary researchers, publicists, intellectuals, and those who create and expand culture, protect t...

Chronicle of human rights violations in the sphere of culture (1-15 June 2025)

As of 15 June 2025, at least 159 cultural figures, including 37 writers, were not free – imprisoned or in home confinement. Non-fiction author Cina Pałynskaj...

Prints featuring Aleś Bialacki and Maksim Znak

May 21 – Day of Political Prisoners in Belarus. On this day three years ago, political prisoner and activist Vitold Ašurak was tortured to death in a colony....
Cultural rights

Chronicle of human rights violations in the sphere of culture (1-15 June 2025)

As of 15 June 2025, at least 159 cultural figures, including 37 writers, were not free – imprisoned or in home confin...
Report of Belarusian NGOs and the Belarusian Congress of Democratic Trade Unions on human rights in Belarus in the sphere of labor for the UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Belarus
The coalition of Belarusian NGOs and the Belarusian Congress of Democratic Trade Unions presented an analytical repor...
Chronicle of human rights violations in the sphere of culture (15-31 May 2025)
As of 31 May 2025, at least 154 cultural figures, including 36 writers, were not free – imprisoned or in home confine...
Banned books
Literature included in the ‘extremist materials’ list in Belarus: (Here we include works of fiction, as w...
Chronicle of human rights violations in the sphere of culture (1-15 May 2025)
As of 15 May 2025, at least 152 cultural figures, including 35 writers, were not free – imprisoned or in home confine...
Creative Projects

Warsztat Tłumaczeniowy – pierwsze spotkanie na żywo w Warszawie!

To w końcu się wydarzy! Po serii zajęć online przenosimy się do rzeczywistości i spotykamy offline! Jeśli jesteś tłum...
Prints featuring Aleś Bialacki and Maksim Znak
May 21 – Day of Political Prisoners in Belarus. On this day three years ago, political prisoner and activist Vitold A...
Nagroda im. Jerzego Giedroycia. Gala wręczenia i wydarzenia towarzyszące
26/11/2024 wtorek 19.00 Gdańsk, pl. Solidarności 1 Europejskie Centrum Solidarności Nagroda im. Jerzego Giedroycia to...
Solidarity
Türkiye: Release and end judicial harassment of Furkan Karabay
Türkiye: Release and drop charges against journalists Hamza Kaan and Mehmet Üçar
Ukraine/Russian Federation: Investigate torture and death in custody of Ukrainian journalist Viktoria Roshchyna
Türkiye: Free PEN member Joakim Medin
Serbia: End chilling crackdown on peaceful dissent
Georgian authorities must lift all restrictions imposed on Human Rights House Tbilisi
Türkiye: Alarming crackdown on peaceful expression condemned
Statement of the Human Rights House Tbilisi and its Member Organizations
Appeal by the International Civil Society in Support of Serbian Academia and Civil Society Actors