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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