December 2025
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The Neris as a Front Line: Smuggling, Radiation, and Evacuation by River
Today, the very same river is viewed simultaneously as a migration corridor for wild salmon, as a possible evacuation route for a capital city, and as a channel for discharging future man-made risks from Belarus’s nuclear program. These scenarios are incompatible, and a choice must be made now. Together with the salmon, we tell the…
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Monitoring Report: The Situation of Belarusian Children Refugees with Autism and Other Mental Health Disorders in Lithuania
Belarusian refugee children with autism face severe exclusion in Lithuania, where trauma, legal barriers, and systemic neglect leave them without essential care. Introduction: Refugee children are among the most psychologically vulnerable populations in Europe, and Belarusian children in exile are no exception. Their exposure to political violence, instability, and systemic exclusion places them at heightened…
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Lithuanian Court Practice in Cases Concerning “Threats to National Security” (2022–2025)
Lithuanian courts overwhelmingly uphold secret security rulings against Belarusians and Russians, relying on classified evidence and uniform judgments. This report examines how Lithuania’s administrative courts handle cases in which foreign nationals—primarily from Belarus and Russia—are denied residence, expelled, or labelled a “threat to national security” based on secret conclusions of the State Security Department (VSD).…
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Submission to the United Nations Human Rights Council for the Universal Periodic Review (UPR) of Belarus
This UPR report, submitted for the 50th session in November, documents serious human rights violations in Belarus amid its hybrid involvement in the war in Ukraine — including the militarisation of children, systemic repression, and the erosion of civil liberties. It places particular focus on the persecution of conscientious objectors, deserters, draft evaders, human rights…
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Belarusian Prisoners for Peace in Belarus
On December 1st, the world observes the Day of Prisoners for Peace. Our House calls for support for those sentenced in Belarus for refusing to participate in violence and protesting against the authoritarian regime. December 1 marks over six decades of the Day of Prisoners for Peace. This day serves as an expression of solidarity…
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Humanitarian Aid in Lithuania: Two Records – One Broken, One Not
This Sunday, 30 November, activists of Our House and supporters of this Belarusian organization—now operating in exile in Lithuania—unloaded yet another humanitarian truck, the twentieth so far. The shipment was sent by our long-term German partner, IGFM-Wittlich. What does this look like? This truck carries 90 cubic meters of boxes, bags, bicycles, and food. What can we compare…
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Assessing ICAN’s Global Nuclear Disarmament Campaign
ICAN’s rise from Australian initiative to Nobel-laureate network shows how civil society turned a anti-nuclear norm into law amid growing global tensions. The review examines the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN) as a global advocacy network that helped deliver the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons. It traces how an initiative launched…
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Polish Monk Detained in Belarus on Espionage Charges
Polish Carmelite monk Grzegorz Gawel is held in Belarus on unfounded espionage charges, denied legal access and treated as a political prisoner. This dossier documents the detention of Grzegorz Gawel, a Polish Carmelite monk arrested by Belarusian security services in September 2025 and charged with espionage. Belarusian authorities claim he possessed a photocopy of a…
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Lithuanian Media Exposes Rape of Male Refugees in Closed State Centres in Lithuania
Independent Lithuanian news outlet Delfi has published a detailed investigation revealing systematic sexual violence against young male refugees inside Lithuania’s closed migration and detention facilities. The report, written by journalist Vitaute Merekaitė and released on 16 October 2025, documents testimonies of Iraqi men raped by a psychologist working in state institutions, raising urgent questions about…
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Belarus Confiscates Olga Karach’s Apartment in Retaliation for Her Human Rights Work
It is no secret that Belarusian human rights defender Olga Karach is one of Alexander Lukashenko’s personal enemies and among the most persecuted activists in the country, and the regime’s escalating attacks on Our House and its leaders show how profoundly it fears their human rights work. It has now become known that the apartment…
