News on the topic: political prisoners
04.08.2013 Statement: “Viasna” demands immediate and unconditional release of Ales Bialiatski and all political prisoners
4 August marks two years since the arrest of our friend and colleague, the chairman of the Human Rights Center "Viasna", vice-president of the International Federation for Human Rights, who was sentenced to four and a half years in prison.
04.08.2013 Two years have passed since arrest of Ales Bialiatski
Today marks exactly two years since the arrest of Ales Bialiatski - Vice prezident of the International Federation for Human Rights, the head of the human rights center "Viasna", closed by the Belarusian authorities. The International Day of Solidarity with Civil Society of Belarus is timed to this date.
04.08.2013 US Department of State's statement on Second anniversary of Ales Bialiatski's arrest
August 4 marks the second anniversary of the arrest of Ales Bialiatski, Chairman of leading Belarusian human rights organization Viasna and a winner of the Department of State’s 2011 Human Rights Defender Award.
04.08.2013 Bialynichy activists send solidarity postcards to political prisoners
On 2 August social and political activists from Bialynichi district, including members of the Belarusian Popular Front and the civil campaign “Tell The Truth”, sent postcards of solidarity to Belarusian political prisoners. The event was timed to the second anniversary of the arrest of the head of the Human Rights Center "Viasna" Ales Bialiatski and to the International Day of Solidarity with Belarusian civil society, marked on 4 August.
02.08.2013 Pickets of solidarity with Ales Bialiatski and other political prisoners are still banned
Babruisk applicants for a picket of solidarity with Ales Bialiatski and all political prisoners received an official answer that their event was not authorized. The answer, signed by the deputy head of Babruisk City Executive Committee Viktar Dziasiatnik, provides several reasons for refusal.
01.08.2013 4 August – International Day of Solidarity with Civil Society of Belarus
Non-governmental organizations around the world take part in the International Day of Solidarity with Belarusian civil society for the second year already. It is celebrated on 4 August, the anniversary of the detention of the Belarusian human rights activist Ales Bialiatski.
01.08.2013 Actions to be held on the International Day of Solidarity with Civil Society of Belarus
Moscow, 4 August. At 4 p.m. a round table with the participation of human rights defenders and experts who study the development of the civil society in Belarus will take place at the Center for saving resources (design factory "Flacon", Bolshaya Novodmitrovskaya Street, 36-26-7. The experts will read short reports and answer the questions asked by the public.
29.07.2013 Frantskevich's letters not delivered: Prison censor goes on holidays
Friends and relatives do no receive all letters from political prisoner Aliaksandr Frantskevich. Charter97.org learnt it from his mother Tatsiana Frantskevich.
25.07.2013 Parents of Artsiom Prakapenka got permission to see their son
Parents of Artsiom Prakapenka are preparing for a short meeting with their son. On Saturday, activist serving a prison sentence celebrates his 23 birthday. Relatives are going to wish him a happy birthday.
25.07.2013 Prison censorship does not pass letters to Mikalai Autukhovich
Not all the letters from freedom reach Mikalai Autukhovich in the prison number 1 in Hrodna.
25.07.2013 Uladzimir Niakliayeu: "The trial was arranged over my head"
Leninski District Court of Minsk was scheduled to consider today the case of the former presidential candidate, leader of the civil campaign "Tell the Truth", poet Uladzimir Niakliayeu, who was expected to be released from serving a sentence of two years imprisonment suspended for 2 years under Par. 1, Art. 342 of the Criminal Code (organization of activities that breach public order, or participating in them).
24.07.2013 Congress of Belarusian expatriates demand release of political prisoners
The delegates of the 6th Congress of Belarusians of the World that opened in Minsk on July 23 under the auspices of the International Public Organization “Batskaushchyna” (“Fatherland”) called on the Belarusian authorities to release political prisoners, the BelaPAN news agency reports.
24.07.2013 Ales, imprisoned for the past two years: join us!
August 4, 2013 will mark a sad anniversary. Ales Bialiatski has been in jail for two years. Two years behind bars for defending human rights in his home country, Belarus. Ales keeps his hopes up. And despite the forced daily work, he writes a lot. His colleagues published his writings on prison literature in Belarus. And he is currently working on a second book on the human rigts movement in his country. On August 4, we will be alongside Ales. The Belarusian government must know it!
23.07.2013 FIDH activists demonstrate during Belarus FM’s visit to Brussels (photo, video)
About a dozen people took part in the event held on July 22 in Brussels on the occasion of a visit by the Foreign Minister of Belarus Uladzimir Makei to participate in the meeting of foreign ministers of the Eastern Partnership countries.
22.07.2013 Pavel Seviarynets gets 3-day leave
Co-head of the Belarusian Christian Democracy party Pavel Seviatynets has received a leave.
