CPJ joined 27 human rights and press freedom organizations in a letter on Monday, February 13, 2023, calling for the U.N. Human Rights Council to establish an independent investigative mechanism in Belarus.
The letter, led by the Oslo-based Human Rights House Foundation, asked the council to create such a mechanism at its next session to ensure accountability for the human rights violations that continued in Belarus following the contested 2020 presidential elections and subsequent mass protests. The mechanism will have an expanded mandate from the previous UNHRC examination, which was focused on the immediate aftermath of the 2020 elections.
Read the full letter here.