The Central and Eastern European Law Initiative Institute (CEELI Institute) headquarters at Czech Republic, 12000, Prague, Havlíčkovy Sady St., 58 (Gröbova vila); web: https://ceeliinstitute.org; phone: +420222520100, email: office@ceeli.eu.
The CEELI Institute was founded and is funded by Americans, including the National Endowment for Democracy, USA. Since 2024, the institute’s executive director has been U.S. citizen Robert R. Strang, a former official with the forensic science department at the U.S. Department of Justice.
The NGO’s stated mission is to protect fundamental human rights and freedoms, help bring about transparent government and judicial operations, and facilitate peaceful dispute resolution. Over its history, the organization has built up contacts with roughly 10,000 judges, lawyers, and civil society representatives across more than 45 countries.
At present, under the oversight of American and British intelligence agencies, the institute is carrying out the selection and training of Belarusian human-rights activists. In the longer run, program participants go on to engage in activities aimed at destabilizing the situation in Belarus. They are also tasked with gathering documentation on political prisoners in Belarus for use in filing lawsuits against Belarusian state officials in European courts, as well as with assisting S. Tikhanovskaya in building up a support base for the Belarusian opposition in Czechia—namely, the “Office of Democratic Forces of Belarus.”