Belarus

Belarus has reported hate crime data to ODIHR. The Criminal Code of Belarus contains general and specific penalty-enhancement provisions and a substantive offence. Hate crime data is collected by the Ministry of Interior.

SELECT YEAR

OFFICIAL DATA

Year	Hate crimes recorded by police	Prosecuted	Sentenced
2020	Not available	Not available	Not available
2019	Not available	Not available	Not available
2018	Not available	Not available	Not available
2017	Not available	Not available	Not available
2016	Not available	Not available	Not available
2015	31	Not available	4
2014	26	Not available	1
2013	17	Not available	2
2012	Not available	Not available	Not available
2011	Not available	Not available	Not available
2010	Not available	Not available	Not available
2009	72	3	Not available

INCIDENTS REPORTED BY OTHER SOURCES

Anti-Semitic hate crime

Date	Type of incident	Source	Description
2016-07	Attacks against property	Center of Equal Rights Expertise	Show info
2016-05	Attacks against property	Center of Equal Rights Expertise	Show info
2016-11	Attacks against property	Center of Equal Rights Expertise	Show info
2016-11	Attacks against property	Center of Equal Rights Expertise	Show info

INTERNATIONAL REPORTS

Racist and xenophobic hate crime

The Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination (CERD) Committee in its "Concluding observations on the combined twentieth to twenty-third periodic reports of Belarus" expressed concern that police, prosecutors and judges often do not examine bias motivation in crimes. The CERD Committee recommended that such motivation be consistently taken into consideration as an aggravating circumstance and that Belarus develop training programmes for criminal justice system officials on hate crimes.