Year
Report data for country
Cases Perpetrators were Sentenced
2
Cases Recorded by Police
17
Bias motivations and crime types
Crime types figures
Type of Crime
Cases Recorded by Police
2
Explanation to the total figures recorded
Official figures record two cases of damage to property and 15 cases of grave desecrations. No information about bias motivations was provided.
Type of Crime
Cases Recorded by Police
15
NGO
Description Type
Reports
Organization Report
Gay Belarus reported one physical assault resulting in serious injury carried out by a group against two gay men outside a club.
Bias Motivation
IGO
Organization Name
Bias Motivation
Description Type
Developments
Organization Report
The United Nations Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD) recommended that Belarus improve its criminal law on acts of discrimination and hate speech, and make racist motivation an aggravating circumstance in determining sanctions for violent crimes.
ODIHR Recommendations
ODIHR observes that Belarus law enforcement agencies have not recorded the bias motivations of hate crimes.