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Belarus political prisoners

Decisions: 5 on 5 sitting days
Outcomes: 5 adopted · 0 rejected
Period: 19 Sept 2024 – 18 Jun 2026
Found by: A model, not checked by hand

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Kind: Crisis
Status: Active
Last 90 days: 0 decisions
Roll-call votes: 5
By kind: Resolutions 5

Kind: Crisis
Status: Active
Last 90 days: 0 decisions
Roll-call votes: 5
By kind: Resolutions 5

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The detention and prosecution of political prisoners in Belarus and international demands for their release.

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Decisions, 5

The latest decisions on this issue, newest first. No CSV for issues yet: the registers cannot filter by issue.

**Effect**: what the decision did. **Final vote**: for–against–abstained, and how it was recorded.
Date	Decision	Kind	Effect	Final vote
18 Jun 2026	Deteriorating situation of political prisoners in Belarus, in particular the case of Aliaksandra Pulinovich	Resolutions	Adopted	504 for, 4 against, 55 abstained by roll call
22 Oct 2025	Situation in Belarus, five years after the fraudulent presidential elections	Resolutions	Adopted	458 for, 18 against, 84 abstained by roll call
3 Apr 2025	Immediate risk of further repression by Lukashenka’s regime in Belarus - threats from the Investigative Committee	Resolutions	Adopted	535 for, 19 against, 55 abstained by roll call
22 Jan 2025	Need for actions to address the continued oppression and fake elections in Belarus	Resolutions	Adopted	567 for, 25 against, 66 abstained by roll call
19 Sept 2024	The severe situation of political prisoners in Belarus	Resolutions	Adopted	549 for, 21 against, 37 abstained by roll call

Dossiers, 5

The dossiers these decisions belong to, the one voted on most recently first.

**Decisions**: decisions on the dossier counted here. **Latest decision**: its date and outcome.
Dossier	Decisions	Latest decision
Deteriorating situation of political prisoners in Belarus, in particular the case of Aliaksandra Pulinovich 2026-2766	Decisions1	18 Jun 2026 · Adopted
Situation in Belarus, five years after the fraudulent presidential elections 2025-2900	Decisions1	22 Oct 2025 · Adopted
Immediate risk of further repression by Lukashenka’s regime in Belarus - threats from the Investigative Committee 2025-2629	Decisions1	3 Apr 2025 · Adopted
Need for actions to address the continued oppression and fake elections in Belarus 2024-3014	Decisions1	22 Jan 2025 · Adopted
The severe situation of political prisoners in Belarus 2024-2804	Decisions1	19 Sept 2024 · Adopted

Group lines

How each group voted on the final votes of this issue: its clear line or divided.

The last 5 final roll-call votes. Each group’s line on the final votes, with members counted in the group they sat in on the day; a **clear line** = at least two thirds of the group’s votes with at least 10 members voting (method). **For / Against / Abstained**: its clear line. **Divided**: no clear line. **With the outcome**: votes where its majority line matched the result. **Votes**: finals the group voted on.
Group	For	Against	Abstained	Divided	With the outcome	Votes
The Left	For2	Against0	Abst.0	Divided3	With outcome3	of5
Greens	For5	Against0	Abst.0	Divided0	With outcome5	of5
S&D	For5	Against0	Abst.0	Divided0	With outcome5	of5
Renew	For5	Against0	Abst.0	Divided0	With outcome5	of5
EPP	For5	Against0	Abst.0	Divided0	With outcome5	of5
ECR	For5	Against0	Abst.0	Divided0	With outcome5	of5
Patriots	For4	Against0	Abst.0	Divided1	With outcome4	of5
ESN	For0	Against0	Abst.3	Divided2	With outcome0	of5

Connections

Topics and issues that come up together with this one, and its main dossiers.

Topics that come up with it

Topic Foreign affairs Ukraine, the Middle East, China, enlargement, human rights abroad.

Running issues

Issue Belarus Running issue · Country situation 18 Jun 2026
Issue Transnational repression Running issue · EU initiative 16 Jun 2026

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Permalink: https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/issues/belarus-political-prisoners
Data source: European Parliament Open Data
Licensed CC BY 4.0.
Retrieved: 25 September 2026

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EU Parl Watch Research (2026). “Belarus political prisoners”. Running issue, 18 June 2026. EU Parl Watch Research. https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/issues/belarus-political-prisoners (retrieved 25 September 2026). Data: European Parliament Open Data, https://data.europarl.europa.eu/ (CC BY 4.0).

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@misc{epw-issue-belarus-political-prisoners,
  author = {{EU Parl Watch Research}},
  title = {{Belarus political prisoners}},
  year = {2026},
  date = {2026-06-18},
  howpublished = {\url{https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/issues/belarus-political-prisoners}},
  url = {https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/issues/belarus-political-prisoners},
  urldate = {2026-09-25},
  publisher = {EU Parl Watch Research},
  note = {Running issue. Data: European Parliament Open Data (CC BY 4.0)}
}