{"id":57226,"date":"2023-03-23T10:53:47","date_gmt":"2023-03-23T17:53:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=57226"},"modified":"2023-03-23T10:53:47","modified_gmt":"2023-03-23T17:53:47","slug":"invocation-of-the-osce-moscow-mechanism-to-examine-reports-of-human-rights-abuses-committed-by-lukashenka-regime","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=57226","title":{"rendered":"Invocation of the OSCE Moscow Mechanism to Examine Reports of Human Rights Abuses Committed by Lukashenka Regime"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>03\/23\/2023 11:38 AM EDT<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Vedant Patel, Principal Deputy Spokesperson<\/p>\n<p>The United States and 37 other countries have invoked the OSCE Moscow Mechanism requesting that the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe\u2019s (OSCE) Office of Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) establish an expert mission to examine the dire and continuous deterioration of the human rights situation in Belarus.<\/p>\n<p>This invocation follows OSCE\u2019s November 2020 Moscow Mechanism Mission Report, which documented the Lukashenka regime\u2019s systematic human rights violations and abuses before, during, and following the fraudulent August 9, 2020 presidential election.\u00a0 That report called on the Lukashenka regime to organize new genuine presidential elections based on international standards, release those unjustly detained, engage with the political opposition and civil society, and ensure accountability for victims of abuses.<\/p>\n<p>This new invocation will establish an expert mission to look into the human rights situation in Belarus and mounting evidence of the Lukashenka regime\u2019s brutal crackdown on all elements of Belarusian society since 2020, as well as allegations of serious abuses linked to the Lukashenka regime\u2019s complicity in Russia\u2019s war of aggression against Ukraine.\u00a0 The expert mission will have a mandate to assess Belarus\u2019s adherence to its OSCE commitments and how the Lukashenka regime\u2019s actions may have adversely affected Belarus\u2019s civil society, press freedoms, the rule of law, and the ability of democratic processes and institutions to function.<\/p>\n<p>We encourage the Belarus authorities to cooperate fully with the expert mission and facilitate its work. \u00a0The United States and our partners will continue our efforts to hold the Lukashenka regime accountable for its human rights violations and abuses.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>03\/23\/2023 11:38 AM EDT &nbsp; Vedant&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-57226","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57226","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=57226"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57226\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57227,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57226\/revisions\/57227"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=57226"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=57226"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=57226"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}