several human rights defenders and civil society organizations who regularly share information and testimony with the UN
Cases- Case status
- Unknown
- Location of case in SG report
- 2021-001-001
- Relevant SG report
- Year of the report
- 2021
- From Country
- Country Geolocation
Latitude: 53.709807
Longitude: 27.953389
- Country Geolocation (linked Cases)
- Belarus
- From Region
- Type of record
- Unnamed individual/group/organization
- Gender
- Gender unclear
- Was the victim a foreign national?
- No
- Was the victim a minor?
- No
- Type of rights defended
- Accountability & impunity
- Was the victim a civil servant or member of the security forces or of the judiciary?
- No
- Reported trigger of reprisal
In preparation of the February 2021 report of the High Commissioner (A/HRC/46/4) mandated by Human Rights Council resolution 45/1; in the context of the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights’ (OHCHR) monitoring and reporting at the request of the Human Rights Council to “collect, consolidate, preserve and analyse information and evidence with a view to contributing to accountability for perpetrators and justice for victims and, where possible, to identify those responsible”
- Engagement with UN body
- OHCHR: OHCHR - General
- UN Human Rights Council: UN Human Rights Council - General
- Dates of engagement
- Pre-Feb 2021
- Type of attempted engagement
- Submission of information to UN
- Dates of mentioned reprisals
- Pre-Feb 2021
- Location of mentioned reprisals
- Belarus
- Reprisal information
targeted, including through raids, arbitrary arrests, and criminal charges.
- Types of reprisals suffered
- Charge/Investigation/Prosecution: Charge/Investigation/Prosecution - General
- Detention/Imprisonment: Detention/Imprisonment - General
- Property damage/raid/search/confiscation
- Alleged/likely perpetrators
- State actors
- Was the reprisal based on new legislation?
- No
- Does the report make general comment about country’s environment for engagement with UN?
- No
- Was the case raised by a State at the UN?
- No
- Is the country cited for a "pattern of reprisal" in the context of this case?
- No
- Is a pattern of reprisals mentioned otherwise in the context of this case?
- No
- Does the report cite "self-censorship" as an issue in the context of this case?
- No
- How many times has the case been followed up in subsequent SG reports?
- 0
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