Belarus

Capital city — Minsk

Country population
9,499,903
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2017
/ Country meters
Incarceration rate (per 100,000 inhabit…
314
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2014
/ ICPR
Type of government
Presidential Republic
Human Development Index
0.796
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2016
/ UNDP
Name of authority in charge of the pris…
Ministry of Internal Affairs, Departmen…
Total number of prisoners
29,776
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2014
/ ICPR
Prison density
83 %
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2014
/ ICPR
Total number of prison facilities
34
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2014
An NPM has been established
No
Female prisoners
7.5 %
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2014
/ ICPR
Incarcerated minors
0.3 %
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2014
/ ICPR
Percentage of untried prisoners
14.3 %
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2014
/ ICPR
Death penalty is abolished
No

Contributor(s)Pavel Sapelko / Human Rights Centre Viasna / Prison Insider

Viasna Human Rights Centre, “The Death Penalty in Belarus”, Andrei Paluda, Palina Stsepanenka, Adarya Hushtyn, 2016.
British Embassy in Minsk, “Information Pack for British Prisoners in Minsk”, 21 November 2016.
FIDH (International Federation for Human Rights) and Viasna Human Rights Centre, “Death Penalty in Belarus: Murder on (Un)lawful Grounds”, October 2016.
FIDH (International Federation for Human Rights) and Viasna Human Rights Centre, “Forced Labor and Pervasive Violations of Workers’ Rights in Belarus”, December 2013.
FIDH (International Federation for Human Rights) and Viasna Human Rights Centre, “Critical Situation for Political Prisoners in Belarus and Freedom for 40 Activists Considerably Restricted”, 5 March 2013.
FIDH (International Federation for Human Rights) and Viasna Human Rights Centre, “Conditions of Detention in the Republic of Belarus”, June 2008.

Tahrir Inernational Collective Network, “Doomed to be free”, 26 Decembre 2012 (in Belarussian).
Tahrir Inernational Collective Network, “Nicknamed the Nail”, 1 March 2013 (in Belarussian).