News on the topic: political prisoners
29.09.2014 Vasil Parfenkou doesn’t receive his friends’ letters again
Activist Volga Mikalajchyk is saying so, she regularly has been writing to the political prisoner Vasil Parfiankou.
25.09.2014 Vice-speaker of the Bundestag is going to support all political prisoners in Belarus
Vice-speaker of the Bundestag Katrin Göring-Eckardt, the representative of the Green Party, has congratulated the head of the Human Rights Center "Viasna" Ales Bialiatski on his birthday, which he celebrates today.
23.09.2014 Mother of Yauhen Vaskovich is waiting for his transferring to the colony in October
Mother of Yauhen Vaskovich said that in mid-October her son should be transferred to the Mogilev colony #15,where the he served sentence before being transferred to the prison #4.
22.09.2014 Political prisoner Mikalaj Dziadok spent 20 days in punishment cell
Political prisoner Mikalaj Dziadok, who is serving a sentence in Mogilev prison #4, spent 20 days in a punishment cell. Prison administration punished him for violating established for prisoners rule connected with uniforms. The father of the political prisoner Aliaxander Dziadok said about it to Human Rights Defenders.
15.09.2014 Prison censors confiscated Mikalai Statkevich's letter to his father
Censors of the Mahiliou prison, where the former presidential candidate Mikalai Statkevich is serving his term, seized his letter to his father, Viktar Statkievich. This happened for the first time in nearly four years, notes Mikalai's wife, Maryna Adamovich.
11.09.2014 Viktar Statkevich and Maryna Adamovich ask police to find author of anonymous threat letter
The father of Mikalai Statkevich, Viktar Statkevich, and the five of the former, Maryna Adamovich, appealed to the police in connection with an anonymous threat letter, thrown into the postbox of Viktar Statkevich on September 8.
10.09.2014 Baranavichy: Statkevich-senior received an anonymous threat letter
September 8 Viktar Statkevich, father of the political prisoner Mikalai Statkevich, received an anonymous letter with threats to his son Mikalai and the son's wife, Maryna Statkevich.
29.08.2014 Political prisoner Vasil Parfiankou to celebrate birthday in prison
On August 30, political prisoner Vasil Parfiankou is going to celebrate another birthday in prison. The activist was taken into custody on December 5, 2013 after he was convicted under Article 421 of the Criminal Code (“non-compliance with preventive supervision restrictions”).
25.08.2014 Lawyer allowed to visit political prisoner Vasil Parfiankou
Vasil Parfiankou’s counsel has been allowed to visit the political prisoner in the Horki penal colony and is going to see him in the near future. Obtaining such permission was difficult, Radio Liberty’s Belarus service reports.
20.08.2014 Prison not over for Mikalai Autukhovich
Vaukavysk District Prosecutor says there are no violations in the police-steered travel ban for former political prisoner Mikalai Autukhovich, who asked to leave his home town to be treated in Minsk. In this regard, Autukhovich prepared a complaint to the Prosecutor of the Hrodna region.
20.08.2014 Congratulate Mikalai Dziadok on his birthday!
On Saturday, August 23, political prisoner Mikalai Dziadok, who is serving a prison sentence in Mahiliou prison No. 4, will turn 26 years old, of which almost four years he has spent behind bars. You can send Mikalai a birthday card or a telegram with words of support and warm wishes to the address: 212011, Mahiliou, Krupskoi 99a, prison No. 4.
20.08.2014 Mikhail Kukabaka: History rewritten under dictation of another vozhd Putin
Mikhail Kukabaka, former inmate of Soviet labor camps, shared with Viasna his opinion about the destruction of the only museum to the victims of repression “Perm-36”.
18.08.2014 Political prisoner Vaskovich cannot receive books
Three books, which his mother sent him to prison, were returned.
14.08.2014 Baranavichy: Viktar Statkevich is looking forward to release of his son from jail
August 13, Baranavichy representatives of political parties and public organizations visited Viktar Statkevich and congratulated him on the 58th anniversary of his son Mikalai who is serving a sentence in prison № 4 in Mahiliou.
13.08.2014 Unidentified activists mark Mikalai Statkevich's birthday with fireworks at prison walls
The fireworks were launched in the evening on 12 August near the building of Mahilou prioson No 4, where Mikalaj Statkievich is kept at the moment.
