The UN Human Rights Council published a report on the human rights situation in Belarus on the eve of the 2020 presidential elections and after them.
The preliminary unedited version states that there are grounds to regard persecution in Belarus as a crime against humanity.
The report examines alleged human rights violations, information about which OHCHR has collected, summarized, preserved and analyzed. It also draws conclusions in accordance with the applicable international legal framework and offers recommendations to the Government and the international community.
It talks about the closure of NGOs, changes in legislation, political prisoners and their conditions of detention, including in the incommunicado regime, repression against the media, deprivation of lawyers’ licenses, expansion of “extremist” lists, searches, arbitrary arrests, torture, deaths during protests and in detention, forced emigration.
Representatives of the Lukashenko regime at the UN called this report a lie. The representative office did not refute the facts from the report, only accused the speaker of lobbying for anti-Belarusian issues.