LIBERECO - Partnership for Human Rights

In 2025, LIBERECO worked across borders to make human rights violations visible and support people affected by repression in Belarus and the war in Ukraine.

Our work included psychosocial and medical support, humanitarian aid, legal assistance, trauma-informed peer support in Ukraine, letter-writing campaigns for political prisoners, and our godparenthood campaign.

Behind every figure are people, relationships and connections that make solidarity possible — and help people regain strength, hope and the capacity to act.

Thank you to our partners, supporters, volunteers and team for standing with us.

Read the full 2025 report via the link https://libereco.org/en/deutschland/jahresberichte #2025-0

“Every morning I turned on my phone hoping my family was still alright. We all told our parents to wipe our chats from their phones. And we have created these fake stories that we are badly behaved children who don’t talk to our parents. And that’s why they don’t know anything about us.”

— Belarusian student, in an interview with DW News

The pressure on Belarusian students is not stopping.

Students of the European Humanities University European University in Vilnius are being pressured to abandon their studies and return to Belarus within 10 days — while their families face threats of prosecution and imprisonment.

Homes have been searched. Relatives have been interrogated. This is how the Belarusian regime reaches people even in exile.

This year, we are making our flashmob longer and louder — because the pressure continues, and we cannot stay silent.

📢 Join the campaign:

👉 Print our posters, take a selfie and share it — link in bio
👉 Share our posts and help spread the word
👉 Support assistance for politically persecuted Belarusians in exile

Stand with Belarusian students and their families. Make their stories visible.

LIBERECO – Partnership for Human Rights and Belarusische Gemeinschaft RAZAM e.V. are standing with Belarusian students.

A huge thank you to our members, volunteers and everyone who joined the flashmob from Germany, Switzerland, the Netherlands, Scotland, Latvia, Poland and Ukraine. Thank you for your solidarity and support!

You can join us too:

👉 Print our posters (link in bio)
👉 Take a photo with a poster and share it in your Stories or as a post with
👉 Tag the Libereco and Razam pages
👉 Or simply share this post.

Students of the European Humanities University (EHU) in Vilnius are being pressured by the Belarusian authorities through their families. Relatives have been interrogated, homes searched, and some students have been threatened with prosecution and imprisonment unless they abandon their studies and return to Belarus within ten days.

International attention can help protect students and their families and show that they are not alone.

Stand with Belarusian students. Help make this repression visible.

Imagine studying abroad and building a safe future — and suddenly your parents call. Not because they miss you, but because Belarusian security authorities are threatening them with prosecution and imprisonment unless you abandon your studies and return to Belarus within ten days.

This is happening to students at the European Humanities University (EHU) in Vilnius, designated an “extremist organisation” by the Belarusian regime in April.

Students in exile are being pressured through their families in Belarus. Homes have been searched and relatives interrogated.

International attention can help protect others at risk of persecution.

On 9 August, join our campaign:

👉 Print our posters, take a selfie and share it with (Link in Bio)
👉 Share our posts on social media
👉 Support our assistance for politically persecuted Belarusians in exile

Show your solidarity with the students and their families. Help make this repression visible.

A special greeting from Hanna Komar Hanna Komar — a Belarusian poet, writer, translator, and human rights advocate.

Her book, When I’m Out of Here: Staying Human in a Dictator’s Jail, is now available at the Libereco Shop.

Blending literary prison memoir with the powerful voices of women who have endured repression, this book is a moving testament to resistance, humanity, and the transformative power of art. Hanna Komar reflects on life under dictatorship and reminds us how freedom, solidarity, and language help preserve our humanity, even in the darkest of times.

✨ As a special gift, every copy purchased from the Libereco Shop comes with a bookmark personally signed by Hanna Komar.

: Two new godparents for political prisoners in Belarus

As part of our campaign, Tomas Tomilinas Tomas Tomilinas (Lithuania) and Tina Winklmann Tina Winklmann (Germany) have become godparents to Artur Holubeu and Taras Machynski, showing their solidarity with political prisoners in Belarus.

👉 Swipe through the post to learn more about Artur and Taras and why international support matters.

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Become a Friend of LIBERECO

From just €5 per month, you can support our human rights and humanitarian work in Ukraine.

Your regular contribution helps make possible: ▪️ educational activities for children ▪️ evacuations from frontline areas ▪️ psychosocial support ▪️ humanitarian aid for people affected by war and political persecution

As a friend of LIBERECO – Partnership for Human Rights , you'll also receive small yearly gifts from Ukraine and invitations to community events.

Together, we can make a lasting difference.

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July with the Libereco Team

This month, we

⚽️ Presented Tamaz and Tsimur with Scotland national football team shirts signed by Scottish parliamentarians. We organised this act of solidarity while the brothers were still imprisoned for political reasons in Belarus.

💌 Wrote more than 50 postcards to Ukrainian civilian prisoners after the performance of “Sour and Sweet” by Sofiia Onishchenko and the Ukrainian theatre niezależny teatr GAS • незалежний театр GAS . The play tells the story of Kyslivka in the Kharkiv region, a village completely destroyed by the Russian army.

• Joined the team in Frankfurt to write postcards to Ukrainian civilian prisoners and remind them that they are not forgotten.

• You purchased more than €1,000 worth of products from the LIBERECO Shop this July! 💙💛 Thank you to everyone who supported our work and the farmers behind the products.