Guides
Reference guides needed in many situations: rights, lawyers, testimony, property, denunciations, doctors. Plus a map of speech offences and a glossary.
Rights and the law
- DraftYour home is being searchedOpen →
- DraftCalled in for a 'chat' or for questioningOpen →
- DraftThe register of people abroad: Law 284-FZOpen →
- DraftInterpol, surveillance and abductionsOpen →
- DraftAdministrative court case: defending yourselfOpen →
- DraftDonations and subscriptions: the risks for BelarusiansOpen →
- DraftFor relatives of political prisoners: letters, parcels, helpOpen →
- DraftParcels and visits in SIZO and penal coloniesOpen →
- DraftPrison transfer: a relative has been moved and gone silentOpen →
- DraftPunishment cells and hunger strikesOpen →
- DraftA relative died in SIZO or a penal colonyOpen →
- DraftGetting out early: parole, a lighter sentence, pardonOpen →
- DraftComplaints to the UN and ECHR after Russia left the Council of EuropeOpen →
- DraftA child or teenager has been detainedOpen →
- DraftSeizure of property and accounts of those who leftOpen →
- DraftDoctors and the police: medical checks, psychiatric assessment, confidentialityOpen →
- DraftBelarus: doctors, the police and compulsory treatmentOpen →
- DraftState-appointed lawyer: accept or not?Open →
- DraftPlea deals and the special procedure: what they give and the risksOpen →
- DraftArticle 51: how to refuse to testifyOpen →
- DraftYou were reported: what to do depending on who reported you and whereOpen →
- DraftBelarus: someone reported youOpen →
- DraftOfficers ask your relatives to sign something: what it is and what to doOpen →
- DraftMy flat or accounts were arrested: what it means and what to doOpen →