News on the topic: political prisoners
10.02.2014 Political prisoner Mikalai Autukhovich doesn't get letters from Ukrainian protesters
Postcards and telegrams from Ukrainian protesters haven't been delivered to the Belarusian political prisoner.
10.02.2014 Front Line Defenders launches Olympics campaign on 12 human rights defenders
‘Rights. Risks. Change!’ Campaign to focus attention on targeted human rights defenders.
10.02.2014 Political prisoner Mikalai Dziadok denied food parcel
The administration of Mahiliou prison, where Mikalai Dziadok is kept, refused to accept a food parcel for him. The information came from the political prisoner’s spouse, Valeryia Khotsina, RFE/RL reports.
07.02.2014 Polish MP met Natalia Pinchuk
Adam Lipinski met the spouse of political prisoner Ales Bialatski in Minsk. The reports come from Polish media.
07.02.2014 Prison administration shoot Ihar Alinevich's meeting with his parents on video
The administration of the Navapolatsk penal colony recorded the recent short-term meeting of political prisoner Ihar Alinevich on video and audio.
07.02.2014 Palitviazni.info: The Chronicles of Belarusian Political Prisoners
Human Rights Center Viasna and Polish organization Foundation for the Development of Democratic Initiatives published book Palitviazni.info: The Chronicles of Belarusian Political Prisoners
31.01.2014 Yauhen Vaskovich visited by mother and grandmother
Yauhen Vaskovich’s mother, Rushaniya, tells little about her recent visit to the Mahiliou-based prison No. 4, where her son is serving a seven-year term.
29.01.2014 Zmitser Dashkevich publishes book of prison stories
The book “Worm” written by former political prisoner Zmitser Dashkevich has been published in Vilnius.
28.01.2014 Minsk City Court confirms one-year verdict for Vasil Parfiankou
The Minsk City Court heard today an appeal filed in the case of political prisoner Vasil Parfiankou. As a result, the verdict of Pershamaiski District Court was upheld and the appeal was dismissed.
23.01.2014 1000 days in prison: action of solidarity with Statkevich
Member of the European Parliament Marek Migalski holds an action in the Polish town of Katowice to support the Belarusian political prisoner.
15.01.2014 Yauhen Vaskovich has served 247 days in penal cell
Executive secretary of the organizing committee of the party "Belarusian Christian Democracy Dzianis Sadouski said told the press service of the BCD on the situation of a political prisoner, member of the BCD Yauhen Vaskovich, who is under strongly pressurized by the administratioon of prison No. 4 in Mahiliou.
15.01.2014 Chair of the Brest Regional Court upholds the picket ban
Chairperson of the Brest Regional Court Tamara Suchok did not satisfy the lawsuit of Biaroza human rigths defenders against the ban on the picket they intended to hold on August 4 to support political prisoners, and left the prior verdict of the Biaroza District Court and the panel of judges of the Brest Regional Court unchanged.
15.01.2014 Biaroza human rights activists congratulated by Mikalai Autukhovich, Ales Bialiatski and Mikalai Statkevich
During the holidays, the political prisoners took the time to answer the congratulations of Biaroza human rights defenders and civil society activists.
14.01.2014 Ihar Alinevich: The best wish is be yourself
The political prisoner sent his mother a letter from Navapolatsk penal colony.
13.01.2014 Political prisoner Uladzimir Yaromenak not allowed making fir tree of plastic bags
Uladzimir Yaromenak told about the conditions in the jail in Baranavichy.
