{"id":139964,"date":"2025-05-26T20:03:07","date_gmt":"2025-05-26T17:03:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pozirk.online\/en\/news\/139964\/"},"modified":"2026-03-09T20:10:49","modified_gmt":"2026-03-09T20:10:49","slug":"un-rapporteur-condemns-belarus-confession-videos-as-form-of-ill-treatment","status":"publish","type":"articles","link":"https:\/\/pozirk.online\/en\/news\/139964\/","title":{"rendered":"UN rapporteur condemns Belarus\u2019 confession videos as form of ill-treatment"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>May 26, <em>Pozirk<\/em>. <\/strong>Special Rapporteur Nils Mui\u017enieks, in his report Thursday, found no signs of general improvement in civil or political rights in Belarus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The report covers developments from April 1, 2024, to March 31, 2025.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Available information indicates that the election of January 2025 cannot be considered consistent with the right to elect and be elected in genuine elections, as guaranteed by Article 25 of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights. Mui\u017enieks attributed this to the ongoing politically motivated repression and the suppression of the freedoms of expression, assembly and association.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He examined reports of ill-treatment in prisons, in absentia trials, reprisals against whole families, abuse of counterterrorism and counterextremism laws by the government and&nbsp;new sentences to political prisoners.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mui\u017enieks concluded that &#8220;Belarus continues to live under the shadow of repression following the previous presidential election of 9 August 2020, which was marked by credible claims of widespread electoral fraud and the brutal repression of peaceful protests.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He also recalled that last year human rights activists identified 669 &#8220;penitential videos&#8221; of detainees; in some cases, the videos were enhanced with humiliating special effects and animation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;The practice of recording such videos of persons deprived of liberty, at the mercy and under the full control of State agents, and therefore unable to freely express their will, is a form of ill-treatment contrary to articles 7 and 10 of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, and may be a sign of other severe ill-treatment imposed on persons in detention,&#8221; the document reads.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Also read: <a href=\"https:\/\/pozirk.online\/ru\/news\/97616\/\">Belarus 1 TV broadcasts \u201cconfession\u201d of German paramedic on death row<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>May 26, Pozirk. Special Rapporteur Nils Mui\u017enieks, in his report Thursday, found no signs of general improvement in civil or political rights in Belarus. The report covers developments from April 1, 2024, to March 31, 2025. Available information indicates that the election of January 2025 cannot be considered consistent with the right to elect and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":83,"featured_media":139951,"template":"","rubric":[36,14],"class_list":["post-139964","articles","type-articles","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","rubric-elections","rubric-politics"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>UN rapporteur condemns Belarus\u2019 confession videos as form of ill-treatment | Pozirk<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"May 26, Pozirk. 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