News on the topic: political prisoners
16.10.2013 Zmitser Dashkevich threatened with new jail term
A former political prisoner can be thrown behind bars for any violation of the rules of police supervision.
16.10.2013 Mikalai Autukhovich: Don't believe if I am reported to have a stroke
A political prisoner fears new repressions from the staff of the Hrodna prison.
14.10.2013 Opposition activists in Vitsyebsk seek permission for demonstration in solidarity with political prisoners
Opposition activists in Vitsyebsk have applied to the city government for permission to stage a demonstration in support of political prisoners on October 29.
13.10.2013 Vitsebsk oppositionists file another picket application
The coordinator of the Movement "For Freedom" in the Vitsebsk region, Khrystafor Zhaliapau and an activist of the organizing committee of the Social Democratic Party "Narodnaya Hramada" Aliaksei Haurutsikau composed their application in such a way to leave the district authorities less reasons for banning the action.
10.10.2013 Pavel Seviarynets to be released on 19 October
Prominent opposition activist Pavel Sevyarynets is expected to walk out free after his labor exile term ends on Saturday, October 19.
10.10.2013 Police reject claim for criminal prosecution of Sovetskaya Belorussia journalist for disclosure of sensitive information
The Savetski District Police Department of Minsk dismissed the claim filed by an NGO against the government-run newspaper Sovietskaya Belorussia regarding their article where the newspaper published letters being evidence in an espionage case.
09.10.2013 Former political prisoner Artsiom Dubski wanted by the police
A photo of Artsiom Dubski on the wanted list appeared in his native town, Asipovichy. He doesn't know the reasons for it. “I wonder, what have I done during my two-year absence from Belarus?” The younster hasn't lived in Belarus for two years and doesn't know the reasons for such a step of the authorities.
09.10.2013 Mikalai Autukhovich: “Now I feel alright”
Mikalai Autukhovich stated he had received a wedding album from the Dashkevichs. “I am very glad for Nasta and Zmitser”, he wrote. “My heart was glad of the happy faces in these pictures, I have received at least some positive news lately."
08.10.2013 Pavel Seviarynets: the system can punish innocent people with death
Co-chairman of the Belarusian Christian Democracy Pavel Seviarynets strongly opposes the death penalty, as well as other leaders of the party. Although not all members of the party advocate the abolition of the death penalty, says Pavel Seviarynets:
08.10.2013 Eduard Lobau about the cold in the penitentiary: “You freeze, have to cover your head at night”
Has the heating been turned on in the Ivatsevichy penitentiary? The mother of the political prisoner Eduard Lobau, Maryna Lobava, is concerned with this question.
08.10.2013 PACE: the release of political prisoners and a moratorium on the death penalty are the obligatory per-requisites for the beginning of a dialogue with Minsk
The release of political prisoners and the introduction of a moratorium on the death penalty in Belarus are the obligatory conditions for the dialogue of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) with the Belarusian authorities. This is stated in the statement of the PACE Committee on Political Affairs and Democracy, published on 3 October on the site of the Assembly.
08.10.2013 Mikalai Dziadok continues applying to the Supreme Court
The father of the political prisoner, Aliaksandr Dziadok, told the last news about his son.
08.10.2013 Political prisoner Ihar Alinevich put in solitary confinement on his birthday
Political prisoner, activist of the anarchist movement Ihar Alinevich who is serving his prison term in the Navapolatsk penitentiary, was put in solitary confinement on his birthday, 24 September.
08.10.2013 Pavel Seviarynets visited by Biaroza activists
Biaroza human rights defenders Siarzhuk Rusetski and Tamara Shchapiotkina and social activist Anatol Sakharusha paid a visit to political prisoner Pavel Seviarynet, co-chairman of the party “Belarusian Christian Democracy”, whose term of personal restraint ends on 19 October.
04.10.2013 Letters stop coming from Mikalai Autukhovich
As said by several adherents of the party “Belarusian Christian Democracy” to its press-secretary, Dzianis Sadouski, they have ceased to receive letters from the political prisoner, noting the absence of letters from him and his failure to answer several letters, which has never happened before.
