News on the topic: political prisoners
18.11.2013 Mikalai Authukhovich deprived of meeting with mother
The meeting with relatives was scheduled for November.
14.11.2013 Viasna supports guidelines aimed to define “political prisoner”
A guideline aimed to define the notion of “political prisoner” was presented at the Third Human Rights Forum held in Vilnius in late October.
14.11.2013 Hrodna resident Vadzim Tsiarletski sentenced to three days of arrest
On 13 November the Kastrychnitski District Cour of Minsk considered the administrative case of Vadzim Tsiarletski, detained at the central railway station of Minsk on 12 November.
12.11.2013 Uladzimir Yaromenak to serve three-month arrest
It took the board of judges of the Minsk City Court just seven minutes to consider Uladzimir Yaromenak's appeal against the verdict of the Pershamaiski District Court of Minsk, by which he was sentenced to three months of arrest.
12.11.2013 Ales Bialiatski earns about $2 a month working six days a week
Ales Bialiatski earns about 20,000 rubles, and can spend just about 130,000 rubles in the prison shop.
11.11.2013 Dzmitry Dashkevich complains about the conditions in the center for the isolation of offenders in Akrestsin Street
On 11 November the co-chairman of the “Young Front" Dzmitry Dashkevich complained to the prosecutor of Minsk. Dashkevich asks to check whether the conditions of detention comply with the standards in the Center for isolation of offenders in Akrestsin Street.
07.11.2013 Ales Bialiatski has served a half of his sentence
The political prisoner, head of the Human Rights Center “Viasna” Ales Bialiatski has served a half of the term of imprisonment. He mentioned this date in his letter to his wife, Natallia Pinchuk.
06.11.2013 Zmitser Dashkevich sentenced to three days of arrest
“Young Front” members have been gathering signatures for renaming Lenin Street to Frantsyskanskaya Street (the historical name) near the central department store for the third day already.
31.10.2013 Political prisoner Andrei Haidukou visited by family
Volha Haidukova, the mother of political prisoner Andrei Haidukou, visited her son during a long-term meeting at colony No. 19 in Mahiliou, Radio Racyja reports.
30.10.2013 Restrictions on Dzmitry Miadvedz’s freedom expire today
Dzmitry Miadvedz, one of the defendants of the “rioting” case of 2010, is not involved in politics, nor is he related to political parties and movements, palitviazni.info reports.
29.10.2013 Political prisoner Vaskovich is in information blockade
For over a month the political prisoner’s relatives and friends have not been receiving letters from him.
28.10.2013 Political prisoner Dziadok thrown into punishment cell two times in autumn
Mikalai Dziadok was thrown into a punishment cell in September and October.
28.10.2013 Natallia Pinchuk: No concessions to regime
Ales Bialiatski's wife called on the West to be consistent in relation to Belarus.
21.10.2013 Nikolai Avtukhovich: A Letter from Hell
Political prisoner Nikolai Avtukhovich wrote a shocking letter from jail.
19.10.2013 Viasna welcomes the release of Pavel Seviarynets
This morning, on October 19, political prisoner Pavel Seviarynets, co-chair of the organizing committee of the party Belarusian Christian Democracy (BCD), was released from special settlement No. 7 in the village of Kuplin, Pruzhany district, Brest region, where he had been serving a three-year sentence for involvement in the events of December 19, 2010.
