News on the topic: political prisoners
29.01.2013 Belarusian Wall (video)
A short movie was posted on the internet about the Belarusian politically imprisoned anarchists.
24.01.2013 MEP Marek Migalski writes to Belarus’ MFA to request meeting with political prisoners
Member of the European Parliament Marek Migalski, who initiated a campaign of solidarity with two Belarusian political prisoners – leader of the “Young Front” Zmitser Dashkevich and former presidential candidate Mikalai Statkevich – has addressed the Ministry of Foreign Affairs asking for an opportunity to meet with them in prison.
23.01.2013 Thorbjørn Jagland: Belarus must release the political prisoners
The Secretary General of the Council of Europe reminded of the conditions for starting the dialogue between the EU and Belarus.
21.01.2013 Anastasia Dashkevich: Dzmitry has a disease aggravated because of the stresses
On 19 January Anastasia Dashkevich learnt about the aggravation of the political prisoner’s illness from his recent letter.
20.01.2013 Paval Sevyarynets granted three-day leave
Paval Sevyarynets, co-chairman of Belarusian Christian Democracy (BCD), has been granted a three-day leave by the administration of an open-type correctional institution in the Brest region.
16.01.2013 Mikalai Statkevich is again persuaded to write pardon petition
The political prisoner wrote about it in a letter to his wife.
15.01.2013 Lukashenka: has Bialiatski been released or not yet?
On 15 January Aliaksandr Lukashenka held a press-conference for Belarusian and foreign journalists. Answering a question he started talking about "Bialiatski or whatever". "Has he been released or not yet?", asked he a rhetorical question.
11.01.2013 Political prisoner Mikalai Dziadok is allowed to have only one meeting and one parcel a year
The political prisoner Mikalai Dziadok has been kept in the cell-type facility of Mahiliou for over a month already. He was transferred there from the Shklou colony, allegedly for repeated violation of the prison regulations.
10.01.2013 Zmitser and Nasta Dashkevichs have the first meeting in prison after marriage
Nasta Dashkevich (maiden surname – Palazhanka) – had the first meeting with her husband, political prisoner Zmitser Dashkevich in the morning of 9 January at the Hrodna prison. The meeting lasted for two hours.
09.01.2013 Tatsiana Frantskevich: the son's stomach problems exacerbated
The stomach illness of the political prisoner Aliaksandr Frantskevich is getting worse. He spent 10 days in the penal cell on the New Year eve. All in all, he spent about a month there during the last year. His mother Tatsiana Frantskevich is anxious about the state of his health, also because he has just one kidney.
09.01.2013 Illia Bahdanau summonsed to KGB again
According to the head of the unregistered Union of Young Intellectuals Yauhen Kanstantsinau, Illia Bahdanau, a witness in the "high treason case" against Andrei Haidukou, has been summonsed to KGB again.
09.01.2013 Pavel Vinahradau: Venturesome Fighter (video)
Another film from the "Judgment Days Chronicle" has been published on the web. The documentary is dedicated to a victim of political repressions, the leader of the youth organization "Zmena" Pavel Vinahradau.
08.01.2013 Landmark UN decision: Ales Bialiatski’s detention arbitrary, release and compensation requested
Paris-Geneva, December 21, 2012. At its 64th session, the United Nations (UN) Working Group on Arbitrary Detention (WGAD) adopted decision A/HRC/WGAD/2012/39, published on November 23, in which it found that the detention of Mr. Ales Bialiatski, President of the Human Rights Centre (HRC) “Viasna” and FIDH Vice-President, was arbitrary.
08.01.2013 "BelSat" calls on people to send postcards to politial prisoners
The TV channel created some trailers, at which TV hosts and journalists are signing postcards for the civil and political activists who are kept behind bars.
08.01.2013 Film about Ales Bialiatski and "Viasna" activities issued at "BelSat" TV channel
The central characters of the documentary are the head of the HRC "Viasna", his wife Natallia Pinchuk and the teacher Natallia Ilyinich, who was dismissed from work for political reasons, and whom the human rights defenders assisted in the protection of her rights.
