The International Accountability Platform for Belarus (IAPB) has released its seventh progress report on the period April to September 2024. During the reporting period, the IAPB continued to grow its collection of information, evidence and analysis. It collected information from 105 survivors/witnesses, bringing the total number of interviews to 2,637 and the collection to 29,492 documents in its close-source collection. The IAPB received three further requests for assistance from State authorities for potential investigations into alleged international crimes committed in Belarus, bringing the number of requests up to eight requests from five States. It also met four requests from the UN Human Rights Office, one from the OSCE Moscow Mechanism Rapporteur and will provide evidence to the Office of the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court in its preliminary investigation of the situation in Belarus.
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The IAPB’s sixth progress report, covering the period between 1 October 2023 and 31 March 2024, highlights significant achievements in the IAPB’s efforts to counteract persistent impunity in Belarus. During the reporting period, the IAPB shared extensive factual and legal analysis of evidence and other relevant information with criminal justice authorities in three states that had submitted requests for information, i.e. with four states since April 2021. Furthermore, the IAPB has supported the work of two non- governmental actors working with criminal justice authorities in two other states and is aiming to further ongoing criminal investigations or help relevant authorities to instigate them. Herewith, the IAPB contributed to ongoing criminal investigations or inquiries in four states. Additionally, the IAPB has provided evidence and information to the OHCHR examination of the human rights situation in Belarus (OEB), thereby contributing to the findings published in their recent report.
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The International Accountability Platform for Belarus (IAPB) released its third progress report on the period February to September 2022. The IAPB has made significant progress towards meeting requests for assistance from four states and the UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR). The IAPB continues to analyse and preserve thousands of files containing information and evidence on alleged crimes under international law committed in Belarus since 2020
Despite the worsening security situation in Belarus and increasing risks posed to the International Accountability Platform for Belarus’ (IAPB) co-leads—Human Rights Centre “Viasna” (Viasna) and International Committee for the Investigation of Torture in Belarus (International Committee)— during the reporting period, the IAPB made substantial strides towards meeting its objectives to collect, consolidate, verify and preserve information and evidence of crimes under international law allegedly committed in Belarus and assist fair and independent criminal proceedings and other accountability bodies and processes, including the UN Office of the High Commissioner’s examination on the human rights situation in Belarus (OEB). Moreover, the IAPB has engaged with the prosecutorial authorities of a number of European states that are investigating crimes under international law committed in Belarus or may exercise jurisdiction over them. Within one year of operation, the IAPB created the institutional structures necessary to meet its objectives in accordance with international best practice standards and carried out substantial work according to the project plans.
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