News on the topic: political prisoners
04.07.2013 Mikalai Statkevich visited by wife
On July 2 political prisoner Mikalai Statkevich was visited by his wife in Mahiliou prison No. 4, Radio Racyja reports.
02.07.2013 Natalia Radina: The health and lives of political prisoners are in serious danger
It has been said quite a lot today about the necessity to release political prisoners in Belarus, but public opinion almost never talks about the conditions in which prisoners of conscience are forced to live in. Editor-in-chief of Charter-97 website, Natalia Radina, spent many months in the KGB detention center. Charter-97 often informs about cases of torture of political prisoners. Natalia Radina told Palitviazni.info more about the issue.
02.07.2013 PACE calls for release of political prisoners
A resolution on Belarus has been adopted at a session of the OSCE’s Parliamentary Assembly in Istanbul.
01.07.2013 Statement by the Human Rights Center "Viasna" and the Belarusian Helsinki Committee on sentencing of Andrei Haidukou
On July 1, 2013, Andrei Haidukou was convicted under paragraph 1, Article 14 and Article 356-1 of the Criminal Code (attempt to establish cooperation with the special service, security or intelligence services of a foreign state) and sentenced to 1.5 years in prison.
28.06.2013 Mother of political prisoner Ihar Alinevich loses job
Mrs. Valiantsina Alinevich, the mother of political prisoner Ihar Alinevich, has worked at the Belarusian State Economic University for over 30 years. The administration said that she was a high-level expert, but security forces insisted that her employment contract should be terminated.
28.06.2013 Jacek Protasiewicz: The European Union hopes for the release of political prisoners
Vice-President of the European Parliament, Jacek Protasiewicz expressed confidence that now it is a time for the Belarusian officials to take steps necessary for the improvement of relations between the EU and Minsk. Above all, Belarusian authorities should free political prisoners. Minsk does not have time to spare to do that. The politician told to Palitviazni.info about the EU expectations.
28.06.2013 Political prisoner Alinevich tears letters that offer to ask for pardon
Ihar Alinevich's parents had a long-term meeting with their son in the Navapolatsk penal colony No.10.
25.06.2013 Eduard Lobau: Summer began, but prison diet lacks fruits and vegetables
Young Front activist Eduard Lobau who serves his sentence in a penal colony, was visited by his mother – Maryna Lobava.
25.06.2013 Berlin activists campaign for release of Belarusian political prisoners, abolition of death penalty
Activists of Amnesty International’s Berlin office arranged the screening of the first full-length movie about the December 19, 2010 events entitled “A Belarusian Dream.”
21.06.2013 Hannes Swoboda: Compromise is inadmissible in the issue of the release of political prisoners
Steps towards the Belarusian authorities may only be taken after the release of all political prisoners in Belarus.
20.06.2013 Belarusian human rights defenders discuss Paleckis’s report in Brussels
The European Parliament hosted yesterday a meeting of the Subcommittee on Human Rights to discuss the human rights situation in Belarus, and draft recommendations on the European Union policy in respect of Belarus, based on a report by the MEP Justas Paleckis.
17.06.2013 Salidarnasts launches Week of Political Prisoner campaign
The Committee for the Protection of the Repressed Salidarnasts launched today an information campaign of solidarity with political prisoners in Belarus under the name Week of Political Prisoner.
14.06.2013 Head of Östgruppen: in the end, justice will prevail in Belarus
The issue of human rights in Belarus remains the focus of attention not only of the Belarusian human rights activists, but also of foreign human rights organizations. A great work on the dissemination of information on human rights in Belarus, solidarity actions and many other directions of activity is done by the Swedish human rights organization Östgruppen. This is stated by the head of the organization, Martin Uggla.
10.06.2013 Political prisoner Aliaksandr Frantskevich not allowed to read Dovlatov and Kafka
An activist of the anarchist movement Aliaksandr Frantskevich who is serving a prison term wasn't allowed to receive a parcel with books by Sergey Dovlatov and Franz Kafka.
06.06.2013 Mikhail Khvastou: Belarus does not need a special rapporteur
Belarus does not need a special rapporteur or any similar institutions. This was stated by the representative of Belarus to the UN in Geneva Mikhail Khvastou, at a session of the UN Human Rights Council, where in the evening on June 4 the latest report on Belarus, presented by the special rapporteur on the situation in Belarus, Miklos Haraszti,was discussed.
