Photo: A file photo from 2015 of Mehrdad Jamshidian Belarusian authorities have ordered the expulsion of an Iranian man who has converted to Christianity and is wanted by Tehran for apostasy and alleged murder, despite warnings by international human rights organizations that he would be at risk of torture and the death penalty if sent back. […]
‘The Centre for Refugee Support’ has summed up the recently announced journalist competition results, dedicated to the problematic of forced migration. The competition was implemented in cooperation with ‘Journalists for Tolerance’ Human Rights Initiative. The jury included a number of high-profile journalists and human rights defenders. The awarding ceremony took place at the central office of Belarusian […]
VK.com “Everyone living in Syria now, please note, we must find Volha Nikalayeuna Fyodarava from Belarus. She left Aleppo eight years ago, leaving behind children with her husband. The husband died, the boys were left alone. Maybe someone knows her?” Half a year ago, volunteers all over the world began to search for Vitsebsk dweller […]
A forced migrant Siarhei Barysau, 35, committed suicide in Loyeu in December 2018, having received a note about his deportaton from Belarus for 4 years. TUT.BY learned the details of the tragedy from the man’s relatives. Although being born in Belarus, Siarhei was a citizen of Russia. However, he had resided in Belarus for 17 […]
Photo: Kastus Zhukouski with his family. Photo from the personal archive A freelance journalist from Homiel Kastus Zhukouski spoke in public about the existence of threats to him and his family and asked for asylum in one of European states in January 2019. He refuses to tell the country of his present stay for security […]
Over 5,500 applications for getting the refugee status or subsidiary protection in the Republic of Bearus have been submitted to the Belarusian governmental authorities since 1995, when the first Belarus Law, which regulated the issues of the forced migration was adopted. The situation with the flow of forced migrants, coming to Belarus, was stable until […]
Since 1990-ies migration of population on the territory of the former Soviet Union has fundamentally changed. The separation of social links, the appearance of military conflict zones, the growth of violence and other factors led to the increase of force migration trends, which appeared to be dramatic for millions of people. According to article 12 […]
Yury Amiachuk passed away at the age of 21. Before his death, he lived in the village Pachapava, Pinsk district. The guy’s family moved from Ukraine to Belarus in 2002. The parents got employed at ‘Pachapava’ agricultural open stock company and the employer provided the family with housing. However, Yury’s father broke his backbone 15 […]
Up to 150,000 migrants have come from Ukraine to Belarus since the beginning of the military conflict in Ukraine. The figure was presented by the president of Belarus Aliaksandr Lukashenka during his recent meeting with a Ukrainian politician Viktor Medvedchuk. According to the president of Belarus, all migrants from Ukraine were granted equal conditions and […]
A cycle of reports about the life of Chechen asylum-seekers in Brest What makes people leave their houses, break the usual way of life, to leave for nowhere, obeying the blind hope? To escape from torture by electric current, from beatings, from the endless stream of threats. It is hard to imagine that representatives of […]