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Belarus: punitive psychiatric treatment documented after 2020
Viasna counts at least 33 (Apr 2025) and 37 (Nov–Dec 2025) people sentenced to compulsory treatment among 7,840 political sentences; at least 21–25 still confined; one documented case: Matvei Bialyai, who struck the Government House doors with a hammer on 3 Mar 2021…
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What the record says
Worldwide register by region (Batch 2) · Batch 8
- Jurisdiction / date
- Belarus, 2020–2025
- Mechanism
- Court-ordered compulsory psychiatric treatment in politically motivated criminal cases; secret trials; indefinite confinement; no parole, amnesty or pardon; incommunicado
- What is documented
- Viasna counts at least 33 (Apr 2025) and 37 (Nov–Dec 2025) people sentenced to compulsory treatment among 7,840 political sentences; at least 21–25 still confined; one documented case: Matvei Bialyai, who struck the Government House doors with a hammer on 3 Mar 2021, ordered to compulsory treatment three months later and again in 2025
- Finding or status
- OFFICIAL FINDING at UN level: Human Rights Council report on Belarus, 22 Apr 2025, para. 37; OHCHR experts' statement 24 Apr 2025 (EUAA country guidance citing both; International IDEA tracker; Pozirk/Viasna; Nasha Niva on Bialyai; dissidentby.com case list)
- Limits
- The UN report itself notes secrecy makes it impossible to be certain in each case whether transfer was political or medical
- Label
- VERIFIED (UN and NGO)
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Reference and provenance
2020-BY-PUNITIVE-PSYCHIATRY