News on the topic: political prisoners
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.
09.01.2014 Prison administration doesn't pass medical parcel to political prisoner Mikalai Autukhovich
According to Lidzia Avtukhovich, she sent her son the needed medication back on December 15. However, on December 26 she received a letter from him where he wrote that he still hadn't been handed over the medicines. "Sending a parcel from Vaukavyst to Hrodna may not take longer than two days”, said Lidziya Autukhovich. “ I'm very worried about why he delayed parcel . And I still do not have any information confirming its receipt.”
09.01.2014 Political prisoner Ales Bialiatski sends greetings to Baranavichy human rights defenders and civil society activists
Political prisoner Ales Bialiatski sent color postcards and congratulated Baranavichy human rights defenders Viachaslau Bolbat and Siarhei Housha and social activists Henadz Artsymenia, Anzhalika Kambalava and Viktar Syrytsa on the New Year and Christmas.
08.01.2014 Mikalai Statkevich passes holiday greetings to friends and relatives
His words were passed by his wife, Maryna Adamovich.
08.01.2014 Mikalai Autukhovich turns 51: “You cannot fully understand freedom if you have never been in captivity”
On 7 January political prisoner Mikalai Autukhovich turned 51. He has celebrated two previous birthdays in a cell on the ground floor of Hrodna prison.
06.01.2014 Vasil Parfiankou is kept in Zhodzina penitentiary
Former political prisoner Vasil Parfiankou is kept in the transit point of Zhodzina penitentiary, from which he will be transferred to Horki penitentiary.
06.01.2014 Trial of Aliaksandr Malchanau postponed to 9 December
On 4 January the first hearing in the case of preventive supervision for former political prisoner Aliaksandr Malchanau took place in the Barysau District Court .
06.01.2014 Statkevich's letter about protests in the Ukraine not let through by censorship
Political prisoner Mikalai Statkevich wrote his brother, who lives in Ukraine, about protests in Kyiv and the relations between Ukraine and Russia. But the letter didn't leave the prison in Mahiliou, where the former presidential candidate serves his term.
06.01.2014 Autukhovich's wife says her husband is provoked to violate the prison regime
After the last meeting with political prisoner Mikalai Autukhovich his wife Alena Autukhovich said that he was provoked to violate the prison regulations.
23.12.2013 Uladzimir Yaromenak to serve sentence in Baranavichy
Uladzimir Yaromenak, activist of the Young Front youth opposition movement, will serve his sentence in a detention house in Baranavichy (Brest region). His wife was told about this at the Department of Corrections of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, the Young Front’s website reports.
19.12.2013 FIDH and the Human Rights Center Viasna Demand the Immediate and Unconditional Release of Mikola Statkevich and Other Political Prisoners
A joint statement by the International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH) and the Human Rights Center "Viasna" on the occasion of the third anniversary of the imprisonment of the 2010 presidential candidate Mikola Statkevich.
18.12.2013 Nabeel Rajab wrote to Ales Bialiatski
From Jaw prison in Bahrain, Nabeel Rajab wrote to Ales Bialiatski, FIDH Vice-President, who has been imprisoned for more than 2 years in Belarus.
17.12.2013 Uladzimir Yaromenak to serve term in Baranavichy
The activist will spent the nearest three months in the detention facility in Baranavichy.
16.12.2013 Mahiliou prison administration says destruction of letters is legitimate
An activist of the Belarusian Social Democratic Party “Hramada”, Leanid Haravy, received a response from head of the Mahiliou-based prison. He demanded an explanation why his letter did not reach political prisoner Mikalai Statkevich.
12.12.2013 Pressurization of Mikalai Statkevich continues
With the onset of the cold season, the radiators suddenly stopped working in the cell of the political prisoner, former presidential candidate Mikalai Statkevich. Heating has been missing in this and the two neighboring cells for more than 4 days.
