The IAPB’s Tenth Progress Report presents the human rights situation in Belarus from 1 October 2025 to 30 March 2026 and outlines the Platform’s continued efforts to advance accountability and support survivors.

During the reporting period, repression in Belarus remained systematic and widespread, characterised by continued politically motivated prosecutions, widespread misuse of extremism and terrorism legislation, and expanding forms of transnational repression. At least 390 new instances of politically motivated persecution were documented, while the cumulative number of convictions since 2020 exceeded 8,200. As of March 2026, 911 individuals remained imprisoned for political reasons, despite large-scale pardons affecting 448 detainees—measures that largely reflected tactical or diplomatic considerations rather than genuine improvements in human rights conditions. Repression extended beyond imprisonment: released individuals faced deportation, surveillance, coercion, and restrictions on civil life.

Detention conditions continued to involve severe ill-treatment, including beatings, asphyxiation, and denial of medical care, with prolonged incommunicado detention and arbitrary sentence extensions further entrenching abuses.

The IAPB continued to expand its evidence base and analytical outputs. During the reporting period, it conducted 79 additional witness interviews, bringing its database to over 38,000 documents and more than 3,300 interview transcripts. Its open-source archive grew to over 2.19 million items, including extensive audiovisual and textual materials. The Platform further strengthened its linkage analysis to support attribution of responsibility to senior officials and to facilitate criminal case-building.

Cooperation with accountability mechanisms contributed to the decision of the Office of the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court to open an investigation into crimes against humanity related to the Lithuania/Belarus situation. In the reporting period, the IAPB provided evidence to the ICC and to national authorities in two States, and shared over 3,000 files with the UN Group of Independent Experts. Overall, by March 2026, the Platform had contributed to 14 requests from national jurisdictions and multiple international mechanisms.

The IAPB also reinforced its survivor-centred approach. An additional 133 survivors received mental health and psychosocial support during the reporting period, bringing the total number of beneficiaries to 850. Particular attention was given to former political prisoners, who exhibit high levels of trauma, including PTSD and depression, and face significant reintegration challenges, especially in contexts of forced displacement.

Beyond documentation and support activities, the IAPB continued its advocacy, capacity-building, and coordination efforts, including the promotion of accountability pathways through its report “Paths to Accountability for Belarus,” engagement with international networks, and support for universal jurisdiction initiatives.

The IAPB remains a central actor in documenting violations, supporting survivors, and advancing justice and accountability for crimes committed in Belarus, and will continue its operations beyond the current project cycle (1 October 2023 to 30 September 2026).

In 2025, DIGNITY commissioned an independent external evaluation of the International Accountability Platform for Belarus (IAPB), assessing its operations since its establishment in March 2021.

The evaluator, Blomeyer & Sanz, was selected through a competitive tender process and conducted a predominantly qualitative, question-based evaluation between May and September 2025. The evaluation was structured around the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development–Development Assistance Committee (OECD-DAC) criteria, namely relevance, coherence, effectiveness, impact, and sustainability. A total of 59 stakeholders were interviewed as part of the evaluation process.

DIGNITY hereby makes publicly available the executive summary of the evaluation’s principal findings, conclusions, and recommendations

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.

The International Accountability Platform for Belarus (IAPB) has released its eighth progress report, covering the period from October 2024 to March 2025. During this period, human rights violations in Belarus persisted at an alarming level, with systematic repression targeting individuals for their real or perceived political dissent with the Belarusian regime. The presidential elections on 26 January 2025 resulted in Aleksandr Lukashenko’s seventh term amid widespread allegations of electoral fraud, further entrenching authoritarian control in Belarus.

During the reporting period, the IAPB collected 76 new survivor and witness testimonies, bringing the total to 2,775, and expanded its evidence database to over 30,000 witness-related documents and 1.5 million open-source records. The IAPB continued to support accountability processes, including submissions to the International Criminal Court following Lithuania’s referral and the UN Group of Independent Experts on human rights in Belarus. Evidence was also provided to prosecutors in two jurisdictions and lawyers representing Belarusian victims of human rights violations in two countries.

Committed to a survivor-centered approach, the IAPB continued to offer mental health and psychosocial support to all witnesses of State-perpetrated violence, with 88 survivors accessing this support in the reporting period.

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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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