News on the topic: political prisoners
10.03.2015 Tax inspectors demand that Mikalai Autukhovich pay the insurance fees for the time of his imprisonment
Businessman and former political prisoner Mikalai Autukhovich is forced to pay compulsory insurance fees to the Social Protection Fund for the time that he was kept in prison. The tax inspectors claim that their actions are legal.
06.03.2015 Judges don't fall under the jurisdiction of the courts
Judge of the Leninski District Court of Minsk Veranika Abramovich refused to instigate a criminal case on request of political prisoner Yury Rubtsou for recovery of moral damages of a judge of the same court, Kiryl Palulekh.
02.03.2015 Hary Pahaniayla: Additional prison term means Dziadok wasn't broken
Political prisoners have always been treated in a biased way: if you are against the system, you must be broken down.
27.02.2015 Östgruppen encourages Swedish Foreign Ministry to criticize verdict for Dziadok
Swedish human rights initiative Östgruppen calls yesterday’s verdict by the Mahiliou court pronounced in the case of political prisoner Mikalai Dziadok, on the one hand, extremely "original" and the other - "politically motivated", according to svaboda.org. The human rights activists are urging the government of Sweden to sharply and clearly criticize the Lukashenko regime for the persecution of dissidents.
27.02.2015 Political prisoner Rubtsou begins to receive newspapers
According to Rubtsou, to achieve it, he had to call the post office and threaten the post staff with a lawsuit.
27.02.2015 Political prisoner Mikalai Dziadok sentenced to one more year in prison
Political prisoner Mikalai Dziadok has been sentenced to one more year of imprisonment as a result of a trial that ended yesterday in a prison in Mahiliou. He was accused of violating prison rules under Article 411 of the Criminal Code. As a result, Mikalai Dziadok will have to spend one year and three more days in penal colony.
27.02.2015 Valiantsin Stefanovich: Release of political prisoners out of question
Deputy Head of the Human Rights Center "Viasna" Valiantsin Stefanovich has commented on the results of the trial of Mikalai Dziadok, which ended yesterday in a prison in Mahiliou.
26.02.2015 Amnesty International stresses politically motivated prosecution of Yury Rubtsou
In its annual report presented yesterday across the world, Amnesty International has highlighted the prosecution of Belarusian activist Yury Rubtsou, who is serving a sentence in an open institution in the village of Kuplin, Pruzhany district.
24.02.2015 Political prisoner Yury Rubtsou files suit to abolish forced labor for convicts
Political prisoner Yury Rubtsou has lodged a lawsuit with the District Court in Pruzhany asking to amend the internal regulations of correctional facilities, which provide for compulsory labor for prisoners in open-type penal colonies, including unpaid community work. The jailed opposition activist has also sent a petition to the Constitutional Court.
18.02.2015 Yauhen Vaskovich not allowed to read Criminal Code
As it became known, after a meeting with his mother in Mahiliou colony No. 15 political prisoner Yauhen Vaskovich was forbidden to take legal literature, including the Criminal Code and the Code for Criminal Procedures, the pres service of the Belarusian Association of Journalists reports.
18.02.2015 Mikalai Dziadok to stand trial on 25 February
The trial of political prisoner Mikalai Dziadok will be held on 25 February in the Mahiliou-based prison No. 4.
16.02.2015 Campaign in support of political prisoner Yauhen Vaskovich launched in Minsk
On Monday, 16 February, the Day of Solidarity with Belarusian political prisoners, all concerned citizens are invited to the Minsk-based office of the electronic industry trade union, to sign greeting cards for political prisoner Yauhen Vaskovich.
16.02.2015 Mikalai Statkevich reports limited access to information
Political prisoner Mikalai Statkevich, the only candidate in the presidential election of 2010 still held in prison, has sent a letter to journalist Barys Vyrvich, which he received on 13 February. The letter was written by Mikalai Statkevich on 7 February.
12.02.2015 Yury Rubtsou faces new criminal case
February 11, Chairman of the Human Rights Center "Viasna" Ales Bialiatski and deputy chairmanValiantsin Stefanovich visited political prisoner Yury Rubtsou in the open correctional facility located in the village of Kuplin in Pruzhany district.
11.02.2015 Yury Rubtsou: «May be, they want to isolate me»
February 9 Yury Rubtsou was summoned to the Pruzhany District Department of the Investigative Committee. The investigator compiled a document that the prisoner refused to give explanations.
