The Czech Republic suspended issuing visas and temporary residence permits to Belarusians until the end of 2023.

Graduation ceremonies for grades 9 and 11 in Belarus were held under the supervision of security forces and rapid response teams.

Care packages with additional vegetables and fruits, allowed since the pandemic, were banned in Minsk and Zhodino prisons. Previously, prisoners were allowed to receive packages of vegetables and fruits weighing up to 10 kg.

The Corpus cultural center in Minsk, a venue for many projects, events, and social activities, was closed by the owners.

Belarusian human rights activist Anisiya Kazliuk, recognized among the thirty most promising individuals in Europe under 30 in Law & Policy, according to Forbes, had to flee to Ukraine following the events of 2020. Choosing to stay and volunteer there amid the onset of the war, Anisiya was detained by the Kyiv police in June for residing in the country illegally, despite the migration service not operating since the end of February and not accepting documents for temporary residence permit extensions. Anisiya faced a fine and deportation. However, assistance from Belarusian activists and the Office of Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya helped Anisiya eventually submit the necessary documents for the legalization of stay in Ukraine.

Belarusian women and their Support UA Women initiative have continued to help victims of sexualized violence in the war in Ukraine by purchasing necessary medicines.

Svetlana Alexievich was awarded the Jiří Theiner Award and dedicated her accolade to Ukrainian writers.

Palina Shynkevich was detained over participating in peaceful protest actions in 2020. She was sentenced to 13 days of arrest, which prevented her from defending her final-year project at her university.

Volha Rytus, a resident of Minsk, was reported to have been beaten and doused with water while giving testimony. Volha spent a week at the Akrestsina detention center in Minsk without a mattress, pillow, shower, walks, and in extreme cold.

Lawyer Anastasiya Lazarenka was arrested at her home, with the security forces wearing bulletproof vests entering through broken windows and doors. Anastasiya is suspected of sharing security forces’ data with Telegram channels labeled as “extremist resources”.

Journalist Tsina Palynskaya was fined nearly 1200 euros over a Facebook post, which she had already deleted, and wearing yellow-blue ribbons on her bag which symbolizes support of Ukraine.

The trial against the BelaPAN news agency employees began. The chief editor and director of the agency, Iryna Leushyna, faces up to seven years of imprisonment.

Aksana Kolb, the chief editor of the Novy Chas newspaper, was sentenced to 2.5 years of restricted freedom for participating in a peaceful demonstration on September 16, 2020.

Activist Alena Hnauk from the small town of Pruzhany in Brest region was sentenced to 3.5 years of imprisonment in a medium-security prison over her Facebook posts. Since 2020, Alena has been detained, arrested, and fined 17 times for misdemeanors.

Liudmila Ramanovich was sentenced to 1.5 years in a prison for “insulting the President of the Republic of Belarus”. She had sent a letter to the Investigative Committee, were she named Lukashenka an “usurper”

Another criminal case was initiated against Volha Vialichka, the director of a children’s hospice in Hrodna, over “organizing the activities of a liquidated public organization”. Before this, the Belarusian authorities had initiated a criminal case against her for tax evasion and participation in the protests of 2020. Volha is currently abroad.

Hanna Vasillieva from the town of Rechytsa in Homiel region was sentenced to two years of home arrest over “actions that grossly violate public order”. On August 9, 2020, Hanna was reported to have “blocked the movement of police vehicles with a baby stroller”.

Yana Mileuskaya was released after 9 months of detention. She served her full sentence after being convicted over removing a red-green flag from a street in Homiel.