The IAPB’s Ninth Progress report presents the human rights situation in Belarus from 1 April to 30 September 2025 and describes the Platform’s efforts to advance justice and accountability.
During the reporting period, repression in Belarus remained severe, marked by politically motivated prosecutions, arbitrary detention, torture and ill-treatment and transnational persecution of Belarusians abroad. Since 2020, over 7,500 politically motivated convictions have been recorded, and more than 1,100 people remain imprisoned for political reasons. UN experts concluded that President Lukashenko and other senior officials are responsible for crimes against humanity, including persecution and imprisonment as part of an organised repressive apparatus.
The IAPB continues to collect, verify, and analyse evidence of these violations. By September 2025, it had conducted interviews with over 3,200 victims and witnesses and securely stored and tagged more than two million open-source materials to support investigations by national and international accountability mechanisms.
To date, we have provided evidence and analyses to prosecutorial services in six States in response to 11 requests, as well as to the Office of the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court under Article 15 of the Rome Statute, as part of its ongoing preliminary examination of the situation in Lithuania/ Belarus. Moreover, 717 survivors have so far benefitted from mental health and psychosocial support provided by the IAPB, including referral pathways and a comprehensive clinical monitoring and evaluation system. Other key achievements include the publication of our report “Paths to Accountability for Belarus” and our “Practice Guide on a Survivor-Centred Approach to Documentation for the Purpose of Criminal Accountability”.
Despite ongoing risks and funding challenges, the IAPB remains a cornerstone of international efforts to document violations, empower survivors, and pursue justice for the people of Belarus.
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