News on the topic: political prisoners
23.04.2013 Alienievich sent to penal cell for 20 days
The political prisoner wrote about that in a letter to his mother Valancina Alienievich.
22.04.2013 KGB refuses to return belongings of political prisoner Dziadok to his family
Relatives of Mikalai Dziadok cannot receive his computer back. The wife of the political prisoner, Valeria Khotsina, told it Radio Svaboda.
22.04.2013 Political prisoners’ wives meet Poland’s First Lady
Hanna Komorowska, the wife of Polish President Bronislaw Komorowski, expressed her solidarity with Belarusian political prisoners by meeting with the wives of three of them, Maryna Adamovich, Nasta Dashkevich and Natallia Pinchuk, at the Belweder Palace in Warsaw.
16.04.2013 Valiantsin Stefanovich: “Brussels has no illusions in its assessment of the regime”
Such a conclusion was made by the deputy chairman of the Human Rights Center “Viasna” as a result of his recent visit to the capital of the European Union to participate in a conference on the dialogue on the modernization of Belarus and have a number of meetings.
15.04.2013 Relatives receive no letters from Ihar Alinevich after publication of his book
In March the book by the Belarusian political prisoner Ihar Alinevich "Going to Magadan" ("Yedu v Magadan") was published in Russia.
15.04.2013 Mikalai Autukhovich says he may sue investigator Alikhver
The political prisoner confirmed that the person whose photos were published in the press and social networks was the investigator who had brought the first criminal case against him.
04.04.2013 Vasil Parfiankou fined for violation of the regime of preventive supervision
Vasil Parfiankou has been charged with a violation of the regime of preventive supervision for the first time since the release from the detention facility on 9 February. On 4 April Yury Harbatouski, Judge of Pershamaiski District Court of Minsk, fined him 800,000 rubles.
04.04.2013 Yauhen Vaskovich: "I will bear my cross until the end"
We learned some details about the prison conditions of a member of the Belarusian Christian Democracy, political prisoner Yauhen Vaskovich. He wrote about it in his letter to his grandmother Tamara, received by her on 29 March.
29.03.2013 Political prisoner Dzyadok thrown into punishment cell for 6 days
Mikalai Dzyadok met with his lawyer in prison in Mahilou on March 28. Radio Svaboda has learnt it from his father Alyaksandr Dzyadok.
28.03.2013 Natallya Pinchuk: Paleckis must show his hand
The situation of political prisoners does not and will scarcely change for the better. Natallya Pinchuk, the wife of political prisoner Ales Byalyatski, gave an interview to charter97.org.
27.03.2013 Ex-political prisoner Martsaleu banned to leave Belarus for treatment
Siarhei Martsaleu requested the opportunity to go for a few months to Poland, Ukraine and Russia, Euroradio reports.
27.03.2013 Valiantsina Alinevich: Prison conditions in Belarus are a subtle genocide
The law and justice system mutilates and kills Belarusians. This was told by Mrs. Valiantsina Alinevich, mother of political prisoner Ihar Alinevich, in an interview to the charter97.org web-site. She also told what situation her son is in now.
22.03.2013 Artsiom Prakapenka sent to penal cell for five days
The parents of the political prisoner visited their son in the penitentiary colony number 15 in Mahilou. Anatol Prakapenka, the father of politically imprisoned Artsiom Prakapenka (in the photograph), told that to the charter97.org web-site.
22.03.2013 Officer Siarhei Vazniak (video)
Another mini-movie from the series “Chronicles of Judgment Time” appeared on the Internet. The documentary is dedicated to one of the leaders of the party “Fair World” Siarhei Vazniak, politically repressed during the presidential campaign in 2010.
21.03.2013 Valiantsin Stefanovich: MEPs should seek meetings with political prisoners
During his meeting with the Lithuanian MEP Justas Paleckis, Valiantsin Stefanovich, Deputy Chairman of the Human Rights Center “Viasna”, raised the issue of political prisoners. “I referred to our joint report with the International Federation for Human Rights, which has recently been prepared. We talked mainly about the situation of political prisoners. But not only about that,” said Valiantsin Stefanovich in his comments to Radio Racyja.
