News on the topic: political prisoners
11.12.2013 Political prisoner Ihar Alinevich is first winner of Frantsishak Aliakhnovich prize
On 10 December, Human Rights Day, the Belarusian PEN Center and Radio "Liberty" announced the winners of the Frantsishak Aliakhnovich award for the best work written in prison.
10.12.2013 Political prisoner Eduard Lobau met with his mother
Eduard Lobau, who is serving the imprisonment term in the penal colony number 22 in Ivacevichy, was allowed a long-term meeting with mother.
09.12.2013 Uladzimir Yaromenak to be imprisoned on 11 December
Today Uladzimir Yaromenak has been informed about the day when he will start serving three months arrest. He must come to the Pershamaiski District Police Department with his personal belongings on 11 December. From there he will be taken to the prison in Valadarski Street.
06.12.2013 Statement of the Human Rights Center “Viasna” and the Belarusian Helsinki Committee on the sentence to Vasil Parfiankou
The Human Rights Center "Viasna" and the republican NGO “Belarusian Helsinki Committeee” regard the sentencing of the public activist Vasil Parfiankou to imprisonment for violation of preventive supervision as politically motivated persecution.
06.12.2013 Political prisoner Mikalai Dziadok taken to hospital
On 30 November the political Prisoner Mikalai Dziadok was taken to the republican prison hospital in Zhodzina from the Mahiliou prison due to stomach illness. This information was passed to the reporters by his wife, Valeryia Khotsina.
06.12.2013 Dashkevich may face stricter police supervision
Zmitser Dashkevich, a co-chairman of Young Front, has been warned about a possible extension and toughening the preventive supervision.
05.12.2013 Vasil Parfiankou sentenced to 12 months in prison
The Pershamaiski District Court of Minsk sentenced today former political prisoner Vasil Parfiankou to 1 year of imprisonment in a maximum security penal colony on charges of violating preventive police supervision restrictions. He was taken into custody in the courtroom and sent to the detention center.
04.12.2013 Prison solidarity: Bahrain-Belarus
Nabeel Rajab, the head of the Bahrain Center for Human Rights and Deputy Secretary General of the International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH), who is in custody in Bahrain, sends his Belarusian counterpart on the International board of FIDH, political prisoner Ales Bialiatski words of solidarity.
03.12.2013 Mikalai Statkevich files another complaint to the Human Rights Committee of the United Nations
On 18 November, 2013 a personal communication (complaint) of the former presidential candidate at the 2010 elections Mikalai Statkevich was sent to the UN Human Rights Committee (UN HRC). The interests of Statkevich at the UN HRC are represented by his wife Maryna Adamovich.
02.12.2013 Night search held at Mikalai Statkevich's prison cell
The prisoner's wife, Maryna Adamovich, has received two letters from him after a long break. From these letters she found about the new attempts of exercising pressure on Mikalai Statkevich.
26.11.2013 Volha Haidukova: Andrei jailed for nothing, it's most painful thing
The mother of political prisoner Andrei Haidukou hopes her son will be granted early release.
25.11.2013 Inmates of Mahiliou prison unable to subscribe to newspapers
Mrs. Taisia Kabanchuk, leader of the Babruisk office of the Belarusian Christian Democracy party, says that her friend received back her letter with a check for the subscription sent to Mahiliou prison No. 4.
25.11.2013 Activist trying to protect Statkevich from censorship
Leanid Haravy, member of the Belarusian Social Democratic Party (Hramada) and an activist of the Movement "For Freedom" from the town of Haradok, wrote a complaint against the administration prison No. 4 in Mahiliou concerning its attempts to restrict Mikalai Statkevich’s rights to correspondence.
20.11.2013 Mikalay Authukhovich was not allowed to meet with his mother
Mikalay Autukhovich’s meeting with relatives was scheduled for November.
19.11.2013 Angela Merkel demands release of Belarusian political prisoners
Political prisoners in Belarus should obtain the possibility to speak and act freely. Angela Merkel spoke of that to Bundestag members, Radio Svaboda reports.
