News on the topic: political prisoners
09.02.2015 Yauhen Vaskovich's friends ask to support him with letters
Halina Smirnova, Chair of Babruisk organization of the Independent Trade Union of Radio Electronic Industry, says that Yauhen Vaskovich lacks support from outside.
09.02.2015 Yury Rubtsou is questioned at Investigation Committee
February 9, Homel activist Yury Rubtsou, who is serving a sentence in an open correctional facility in the village of Kuplin (Pruzhany district), was taken to the District Investigative Committee for questioning. The political prisoner managed to report it over the phone.
08.02.2015 Yury Rubtsou claims recovery of 125 mln roubles as moral damages and and passing it to publishing house “Lohvinau”
A resident of Homel Yury Rubtsou who is now serving a personal restraint term in the vllage of Kuplin in the Pruzhany district, has sent a petition to the court of the Savetski district of Minsk for the recovery of moral damage. The defendant in the lawsuit is Judge Kiryl Palulekh.
05.02.2015 Conditions in open correctional facility provoke violations
It is very hard for the people serving their terms of personal restraint at the open correctional facility No. 7 in the village of Kuplin in the Pruzhany district, to keep to the daily routine.
03.02.2015 Ex-political prisoner Aliaksandr Frantskevich sentenced to 25 days of arrest
February 3, Minsk's Savetski District Court heard an administrative case against an activist of the anarchist movement, ex-political prisoner Aliaksandr Frantskevich. The case was considered by Judge Artsiom Biaskishski.
02.02.2015 Political prisoner Ihar Alinevich put in penal cell again
This is at least the fifth incarceration during the time he has spent in the correctional colony “Vitsba”.
02.02.2015 Political prisoner Yury Rubtsou gets a warning on stopping his hunger-strike
February 1, political prisoner Yury Rubtsou, who is serving a sentence in the open correctional facility No. 7 in the village of Kulin (Pruzhany district), stopped his hunger-strike.
02.02.2015 Mikalai Statkevich not allowed to work in jail
The political prisoner has been transferred from the quarantine unit to the general unit in the Shklou correctional facility No. 17.
28.01.2015 Prison authorities ignore hunger strike by Yury Rubtsou
Political prisoner Yury Rubtsou, who is serving a sentence in special settlement No. 7 in the village of Kuplin, Pruzhany district, has been on a hunger strike since January 22. Nevertheless, the administration has not yet officially registered the protest in the prison’s medical facility.
26.01.2015 Political prisoner Statkevich accused of “avoiding community service”
The confinement regime for Mikalai Statkevich has not been changed. He wrote it to his wife Maryna Adamovich. The authorities of the Shklou prison think he “failed to choose a course of correction”, BelaPAN reports.
22.01.2015 Yury Rubtsou goes on indefinite hunger strike
The political prisoner demands a job with the country's average salary of $600.
22.01.2015 Human rights organizations demand an immediate cessation of the criminal prosecution of political prisoner Mikalai Dziadok and his release from jail
FIDH, HRC "Viasna" and BHC express deep concern with the serious threats to the life and health of Mikalai Dziadok and emphasize that the entire responsibility for his safety and protection lies with the administration of the prison No. 4 in Mahiliou and the management of the Department of Corrections of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Republic of Belarus.
20.01.2015 Political prisoner Yury Rubtsou receives tablet and TV set from activists
Activists raised money and bought food and devices for the political prisoner.
19.01.2015 Mikalai Statkevich faces two violation reports after transfer to Shklou colony
Political prisoner Mikalai Statkevich has been accused of two violations in just two days of his stay in the Shklou penal colony.
16.01.2015 Political prisoner Vaskovich waits for permission for long-term meeting
The mother of the political prisoner waits for a meeting with her son.
Rushania Vaskovich said it to charter97.org in an interview.
