human rights defender
Ihar Mints
Actions and Campaigns
Ihar Mints
HUMAN RIGHTS DEFENDER
Organization affiliation
- Rabochy Rukh (Workers movement) labour rights group
HRD's year of birth
1977
HRD's Gender
Man
Type of HRD
- Lawyer
HRD's thematic area of engagement
- Labour rights
HRD's geographical origin
Urban
Current Status
In prison (sentenced)
HRD's bio and work
Ihar Mints was a legal adviser at Naftan, a major Belarusian oil refinery. On September 22, 2021, his home was searched. The next day he was arrested as part of a criminal investigation for 'high treason' involving several employees of Belarusian factories who supported local strikes in 2020 and were members of the Rabochy Rukh labor rights group. On September 21, 2021, Rabochy Rukh was labeled as an ""extremist"" initiative, a decision that sparked the arrests of many workers across the country. In addition, Ihar was charged with defamation and with the creation of and participation in an extremist formation.
On November 9, 2022, the Homieĺ Regional Court began the trial of the Rabochy Rukh case involving ten political prisoners. At the trial, all the defendants refused to plead guilty to treason and creating an extremist formation. They also refused to testify.
On February 17, 2023, Ihar Mints was sentenced to 12 years of imprisonment in a medium-security penal colony.
Detained since
Sep 23, 2021
Charge(s)
- Extremism
- Treason
Sentence
12 years
Latitude: 54.216
Longitude: 30.307
Geolocation of detention
Country or area of detention
Region of detention
- Europe: Eastern Europe
Location of detention - City/Town
Škloŭ
Location of detention - Facility
Penal colony No. 17. 213004, Škloŭ, vulica 1-ja Zavodskaja 8
Any other relevant documents
Director-General’s report on the latest development regarding the situation of freedom of association in Belarus and compliance with the recommendations of the Commission of Inquiry established to examine the observance by the Government of Belarus of the Freedom of Association and Protection of the Right to Organise Convention, 1948 (No. 87), and the Right to Organise and Collective Bargaining Convention, 1949 (No. 98), ILC.112/CAN/D/Special sitting Belarus-C.87-C.98 https://www.ilo.org/resource/other/director-generals-report-latest-development-regarding-situation-freedom
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- Country(ies) of nationality
- HRD's year of birth
- 1977
- HRD's Gender
- Man
- Type of HRD
- Lawyer
- HRD's thematic area of engagement
- Labour rights
- Organization affiliation
- Rabochy Rukh (Workers movement) labour rights group
- HRD's Picture
- HRD's bio and work
Ihar Mints was a legal adviser at Naftan, a major Belarusian oil refinery. On September 22, 2021, his home was searched. The next day he was arrested as part of a criminal investigation for 'high treason' involving several employees of Belarusian factories who supported local strikes in 2020 and were members of the Rabochy Rukh labor rights group. On September 21, 2021, Rabochy Rukh was labeled as an ""extremist"" initiative, a decision that sparked the arrests of many workers across the country. In addition, Ihar was charged with defamation and with the creation of and participation in an extremist formation.
On November 9, 2022, the Homieĺ Regional Court began the trial of the Rabochy Rukh case involving ten political prisoners. At the trial, all the defendants refused to plead guilty to treason and creating an extremist formation. They also refused to testify.
On February 17, 2023, Ihar Mints was sentenced to 12 years of imprisonment in a medium-security penal colony.
- HRD's geographical origin
- Urban
- Country or area of detention
- Region of detention
- Europe: Eastern Europe
- Location of detention - City/Town
- Škloŭ
- Location of detention - Facility
- Penal colony No. 17. 213004, Škloŭ, vulica 1-ja Zavodskaja 8
- Geolocation of detention
Latitude: 54.216
Longitude: 30.307
- Geolocation of detention
- Detained since
- Sep 23, 2021
- Current Status
- In prison (sentenced)
- Charge(s)
- Extremism
- Treason
- Sentence
12 years
- Protection actions and campaigns
- Any other relevant documents
Director-General’s report on the latest development regarding the situation of freedom of association in Belarus and compliance with the recommendations of the Commission of Inquiry established to examine the observance by the Government of Belarus of the Freedom of Association and Protection of the Right to Organise Convention, 1948 (No. 87), and the Right to Organise and Collective Bargaining Convention, 1949 (No. 98), ILC.112/CAN/D/Special sitting Belarus-C.87-C.98 https://www.ilo.org/resource/other/director-generals-report-latest-development-regarding-situation-freedom
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- Consent status
- Consent to register, store and publish the information
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