Cultural rights

Joint statement by the Belarusian human rights community In June 2025, Aleh Chamienka, a musician, teacher, and radio...

As of 30 June 2025, at least 156 cultural figures, including 38 writers, were not free – either imprisoned or in home...

As of 15 June 2025, at least 159 cultural figures, including 37 writers, were not free – imprisoned or in home confin...

The coalition of Belarusian NGOs and the Belarusian Congress of Democratic Trade Unions presented an analytical repor...

As of 31 May 2025, at least 154 cultural figures, including 36 writers, were not free – imprisoned or in home confine...

PEN Belarus has explored the literary map of the diaspora. Which countries and cities are marked there? What organiza...

Literature included in the ‘extremist materials’ list in Belarus: (Here we include works of fiction, as w...

As of 15 May 2025, at least 152 cultural figures, including 35 writers, were not free – imprisoned or in home confine...

This report is based on aggregated information collected by the PEN Belarus monitoring group during the first three m...

As of 30 April 2025, at least 163 cultural figures, including not less than 35 writers, were not free – imprisoned or...

As of 15 April 2025, at least 165 cultural figures, including not less than 36 writers, were not free – imprisoned or...

A coalition of Belarusian NGOs has submitted a joint report on Belarus’s fulfillment of its human rights obligations ...