Uladzimir Tselyapun
Uladzimir Tselyapun is a Belarusian human rights defender working in Mozyr, Belarus, on the intersection of environmental and access to information issues, focusing particularly on the access to information related to the Chernobyl disaster. Uladzimir Tselyapun’s work also focused on fair elections and local community gatherings.
The environment for the work of human rights defenders (HRDs) in Belarus has continuously deteriorated since an authoritarian political regime was established there in 1994. HRDs are systematically subjected to intimidation and harassment, including judicial harassment, restrictions on freedom of expression, association and assembly, and movement, as well as arbitrary detention and conviction, ill-treatment and defamation, searches of offices and personal belongings, and confiscations of equipment. The widespread impunity of law enforcement officers contributes to even further human rights violations and retaliations against HRDs.
