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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