Guides
Reference guides needed in many situations: rights, lawyers, testimony, property, denunciations, doctors. Plus a map of speech offences and a glossary.
The guides below are drafts: a lawyer has not reviewed them yet. This is not legal advice.
Rights and the law
- What human rights defenders adviseYour home is being searchedOpen →
- What human rights defenders adviseCalled in for a 'chat' or for questioningOpen →
- What human rights defenders adviseThe register of people abroad: Law 284-FZOpen →
- What human rights defenders adviseInterpol, surveillance and abductionsOpen →
- What human rights defenders adviseAdministrative court case: defending yourselfOpen →
- What human rights defenders adviseDonations and subscriptions: the risks for BelarusiansOpen →
- What human rights defenders adviseFor relatives of political prisoners: letters, parcels, helpOpen →
- What human rights defenders adviseParcels and visits in SIZO and penal coloniesOpen →
- What human rights defenders advisePrison transfer: a relative has been moved and gone silentOpen →
- What human rights defenders advisePunishment cells and hunger strikesOpen →
- What human rights defenders adviseA relative died in SIZO or a penal colonyOpen →
- What human rights defenders adviseGetting out early: parole, a lighter sentence, pardonOpen →
- What human rights defenders adviseComplaints to the UN and ECHR after Russia left the Council of EuropeOpen →
- What human rights defenders adviseA child or teenager has been detainedOpen →
- What human rights defenders adviseSeizure of property and accounts of those who leftOpen →
- What human rights defenders adviseDoctors and the police: medical checks, psychiatric assessment, confidentialityOpen →
- What human rights defenders adviseBelarus: doctors, the police and compulsory treatmentOpen →
- What human rights defenders adviseState-appointed lawyer: accept or not?Open →
- What human rights defenders advisePlea deals and the special procedure: what they give and the risksOpen →
- What human rights defenders adviseArticle 51: how to refuse to testifyOpen →
- What human rights defenders adviseYou were reported: what to do depending on who reported you and whereOpen →
- What human rights defenders adviseBelarus: someone reported youOpen →
- What human rights defenders adviseOfficers ask your relatives to sign something: what it is and what to doOpen →
- What human rights defenders adviseMy flat or accounts were arrested: what it means and what to doOpen →
- What human rights defenders adviseAfter leaving: loans, pension and working for a Russian employerOpen →
- What human rights defenders adviseTaking a child abroad when the other parent objectsOpen →
- What human rights defenders adviseMilitary registration when you are abroadOpen →
- What human rights defenders adviseDrugs planted on youOpen →
- What human rights defenders adviseSingle-person picket: what to expectOpen →
- What human rights defenders adviseA prisoner's family: divorce, child support, power of attorney, propertyOpen →
- What human rights defenders adviseA family member is charged over donations: what the family can doOpen →
- What human rights defenders adviseHelping someone close to you leave: how not to harm them or yourselfOpen →