Chronicle of human rights violations in the sphere of culture (15-31 October 2026)
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Chronicle of human rights violations in the sphere of culture (1-15 October 2026)
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Statement of the Human Rights Coalition on the assessment of the situation with repression in Belarus
We welcome the release by the Belarusian authorities of people persecuted on politically motivated grounds, including...
Chronicle of human rights violations in the sphere of culture (15-30 September 2026)
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Chronicle of human rights violations in the sphere of culture (1-15 September 2026)
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Aleś Adamovič Award Ceremony 2026
26 November, 18:30 The Leibniz Center for Literary and Cultural Research (ZfL), Pariser Straße 1, 10719 Berlin Langua...
verse X change: Inside the Belarusian–Nordic Poetic Dialogue [video]
In spring 2026, we launched the Belarusian–Danish–Swedish poetry exchange, verse X change. Belarusian poets travelled...
Anthology preview
We are pleased to share a preview of the anthology created within the PEN project “verse X change”, which brought tog...
The Threat Is in the Air. Maksim Znak
Adapted version of the speech delivered at the Ninth World Congress Against the Death Penalty (Belarusian side event)...
PEN Belarus: a history of free expression and cultural resistance
In both Soviet times and modern-day Belarus, freedom of expression has never come easily. It has always required a fi...
The Museum of Stolen Time. Maksim Znak
In Belarus, prison authorities systematically confiscate and destroy the literary manuscripts, letters and diary entr...