News on the topic: political prisoners
02.05.2014 Jauhen Vaskovich was transferred to a single confinement cell
Political prisoner Jauhen Vaskovich was transferred to a single confinement cell
30.04.2014 1000 days in prison: Free Ales now!
Activists of Amnesty International and Libereco - Partnership for Human Rights hold a picket in Zurich/Switzerland to remember that Belarusian human rights defender Ales Bialiatski is in prison since 1000 days on 29th April 2014.
29.04.2014 Ales Bialiatski: 1000 Days in Prison
Ales Bialiatski, head of the Human Rights Center Viasna and vice president of FIDH, has spent 1000 days behind bars.
27.04.2014 Libereco offers to sign petition to amnesty political prisoners in Belarus
On the eve of the Ice Hockey World Championship, the human rights organization “Libereco - Partnership for Human Rights” calls on President Lukashenka to release all political prisoners and to host the Championship without human rights violations.
23.04.2014 Political prisoner Parfiankou thrown to locked cell for half a year
On 7 April Vasil Parfiankou has been placed in a locked-type confinement cell for 6 months. The charter97.org web-site learnt about that from an activist of the European Belarus civic campaign Julia Sciapanava.
22.04.2014 Can political prisoners count on release under amnesty?
On April 21, it became known that the parliament was expected to review a bill on amnesty in 2014. However, the national legal portal has not yet published the document.
18.04.2014 Mikalai Autukhovich: “When I was released, former head of tax inspection asked for bodyguard”
Former political prisoner, Vaukavysk businessman told about the conditions of detention in Belarusian prisons, about his opinion on the entrepreneurial movement in Belarus and assessed the level of corruption in the country.
17.04.2014 Baranavichy: political prisoners are congratulated on Easter
April 15, Baranavichy activists sent colored greeting cards with Easter to political prisoners Mikalai Statkevich, Ales Bialiatski, Eduard Lobau, Mikalai Dziadok, Ihar Alinevich, Artsiom Prakapenka, Andrei Haidukou and Vasil Parfiankou.
16.04.2014 Political prisoner Yauhen Vaskovich is pressurized through other prisoners
As it became known to the organizing committee of the party "Belarusian Christian Democracy" from sources in Mahiliou prison No. 4, the administration started exercising pressure on the activist with the use of other prisoners.
10.04.2014 Mikalai Statkevich's father fears he won't see his son anymore
Baranavichy activists Viktar Syrytsa, Siarhei Housha, Anzhalika Kambalava and Mikalai Antanovich have paid a visit to Viktar Syrytsa, the father of the political prisoner Mikalai Statkevich.
09.04.2014 30 facts about political prisoner Mikalai Autukhovich
Mr. Autukhovich is a Belarusian entrepreneur, sentenced to 62 months in jail for alleged storing and trafficking five fire cartridges, whereas the real reason was his struggle against corruption. We decided to remind about the most important facts from his life.
08.04.2014 Political prisoner Mikalai Autukhovich released from jail
In prison, he was twice offered to write a petition for clemency to Lukashenka. The political prisoner refused to do it, not to be mocked for his “weakness” afterwards.
08.04.2014 Political prisoner Eduard Lobau has problems with mail correspondence
Not all the letters come through from Eduard Lobau, who is serving imprisonment term in the penal colony number 22 in Ivatsevichy.
04.04.2014 International human rights defenders: Journalists must testify about what is happening in Belarus
Robert Hårdh, Executive Director of Civil Rights Defenders, Maina Kiai, UN Special Rapporteur on the right of freedom of peaceful assembly and of association, and Margaret Sekaggya, UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of Human Rights Defenders, have addressed journalists during the Defenders' Days conference, which is currently underway in Sweden: "Every journalist who find themselves in an authoritarian country such as Belarus must have an obligation to stand up for free speech and report on human rights violations in such a country."
28.03.2014 Mikalai Autukhovich loses complaint against prison penalties
On the morning of March 28, Judge Zhanna Krauchanka of Hrodna’s Leninski District Court dismissed a complaint by political prisoner Mikalai Autukhovich, Radio Free Europe’s Belarus service reports.
