UNHRC Set Up Special Group To Investigate Crimes Of Lukashenka's Regime

• 5.04.2024, 21:30

A resolution on Belarus has been adopted.

The UN Human Rights Council adopted a resolution "The Situation with Human Rights in Belarus" at the meeting of the 55th session in Geneva on April 4 by 24 votes in favour, 6 against and 17 abstaining, reports Pozirk.

Albania, Argentina, Belgium, Benin, Benin, Brazil, Bulgaria, Brazil, Chile, Costa Rica, Dominican Republic, Chile, Costa Rica, Finland, France, Gambia, Germany, Ghana, Honduras, Japan, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malawi, Montenegro, Netherlands, Paraguay, Romania, USA and Finland voted in favour of the resolution.

Algeria, Burundi, Vietnam, China, Cuba and Eritrea voted against the adoption of the document.

The HRC strongly condemned "widespread and systematic violations of human rights," including "arbitrary deprivation of the right to life and liberty, mass unlawful detention and imprisonment of persons for political reasons or for exercising their human rights, enforced disappearances, torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment, including sexual and gender-based violence, denial of due process rights and the right to a fair trial, failure to guarantee the rights and interests of children, failure to ensure the right to education and work, arbitrary denial of the right to enter one's country, violations of the rights to freedom of expression, peaceful assembly and association and to equal protection of the law, as well as other human rights violations committed in Belarus.

The UNHRC decided to establish, as a matter of urgency, a panel of three independent experts on the human rights situation in Belarus. Its mandate will be to investigate and establish the facts, circumstances and root causes of all alleged human rights violations and abuses committed in Belarus since May 1, 2020.