Garry Paganyaila
HRD, Director
Legal Commission of the Belarusian Helsinki Committee
Garry Paganyaila is a prominent human rights defender Director of the Legal Commission of the Belarusian Helsinki Committee and member of the Belarusian Association of Journalists. He has been part of the legal teams of some of the most prominent human rights cases in the last two decades in Belarus.
After the wave of violence that followed the presidential election of December 2010, the human rights situation in Belarus deteriorated rapidly and remains poor after the crackdown. Human rights defenders (HRDs) are subjected to intimidation and harassment, including judicial harassment, restrictions on freedom of expression, association and assembly, movement, arbitrary detention and ill-treatment.
