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Immediate risk of further repression by Lukashenka’s regime in Belarus - threats from the Investigative Committee

TA-10-2025-0063 · P10_TA(2025)0063 · PE772.501

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The resolution condemns the Lukashenka regime's repression of Belarusians at home and abroad, demands the release of political prisoners, and calls for EU-wide legal protection, sanctions, and support for independent media and civil society.

Key points

  1. Demands that Lukashenka's regime immediately cease repression, including surveillance of exiles and demonstrators, and release and rehabilitate all political prisoners.
  2. Strongly condemns the expansion of repression targeting Belarusians abroad with criminal prosecution, asset seizures and other measures to silence dissent.
  3. Calls for EU-wide legal support and protection for exiled Belarusians by simplifying procedures for visas, resident permits and provisional IDs for stateless individuals.
  4. Reiterates non-recognition of Lukashenka, considers 'special proceedings' a violation of Member States' sovereignty, and urges disregard of Interpol arrest warrants for political opponents.
  5. Welcomes sanctions on the President Property Management Directorate and Central Election Commission, and urges personal sanctions on all members of the Belarusian Investigative Committee and complicit officials.
  6. Advocates a legal mechanism to identify, freeze and confiscate assets outside Belarus owned by Lukashenka and his inner circle, reallocating them to a fund for victims.
  7. Urges Member States to impose further sanctions equal to those on Russia, particularly on officials responsible for transnational repression.
  8. Urges the EU and Member States to increase support for independent media, human rights defenders, trade unions and civil society, including monitoring trials and increasing visibility of political prisoners.
  9. Calls on the VP/HR to use INTCEN and EDMO to counteract Belarusian intelligence operations and disinformation.
  10. Urges the International Criminal Court to expedite proceedings on crimes against humanity and demands Member States pursue accountability through national proceedings based on universal jurisdiction.

Who is affected

  • Belarusian political prisoners and their families, who are to be released and rehabilitated.
  • Belarusian exiles and diaspora, who would receive legal support, simplified visa procedures, and protection from extraterritorial prosecution.
  • Members of the Belarusian Investigative Committee and other complicit officials, targeted for personal sanctions.
  • Lukashenka and his inner circle, whose assets outside Belarus would be frozen and confiscated.
  • Independent media, human rights defenders, trade unions and civil society in and outside Belarus, receiving increased EU support.

Figures and deadlines

  • More than 1 200 political prisoners, including Viktoryia Kulsha, Volha Mayorava, Alena Hnauk and Andrzej Poczobut, are still jailed.