News on the topic: political prisoners
07.01.2013 Human rights defenders think the accused of "high treason", Andrei Haidukou, may be tortured
Such suspicion arises from the repeated non-admission of the counsel to the pre-trial prison of the KGB, where the Navapolatsk democratic activist Andrei Haidukou is currently kept. Human rights defenders submitted an appropriate complaint to the UN Special Rapporteur on this occasion.
06.01.2013 Congratulate Mikalai Autukhovich: the political prisoner celebrates his 50-year jubilee on 7 January
Mikalai Autukhovich is a veteran of the war in Afghanistan, successful entrepreneur and democratic activist from Vaukavysk, imprisoned for his anti-corruption activities.
03.01.2013 Political prisoner Ihar Alinevich phoned home several hours before the New Year
The activist of the anarchist movement Ihar Alinevich managed to phone home and congratulate his relatives on the New Year literally several hours before the advent of 2013.
03.01.2013 Mikalai Autukhovich does not count on parole
On the New Year's Eve the political prisoner Mikalai Autukhovich sent a letter to his friend, human rights defender Aleh Vouchak, who had also served in Afghanistan during the Soviet rule.
03.01.2013 Political prisoner Vasil Parfiankou not allowed to phone home even once
Starting from August 2012, when Vasil Parfiankou was put in the Baranavichy detention facility, he has not never been allowed to phone home.
29.12.2012 Ales Bialiatski: "This international support is a message to all Belarusians"
The fact that the political prisoner remains in Babruisk-based penal colony is confirmed by the letters he continues sending – of 18th, 20th, 24th December. Ales says that almost all of his free time is occupied by letters. Letters and postcards with words of support coming in large numbers – sometimes more than a hundred of them comes in just a day.
27.12.2012 Young Front leaders Zmitser Dashkevich and Nasta Palazhanka get married in prison
Zmitser Dashkevich and Anastasiya (Nasta) Palazhanka, leaders of an opposition youth group called Malady Front, got married in Prison No. 1 in Hrodna on December 26.
27.12.2012 “Three Poems by Politician Niakliayeu” (video)
A new film in a series "The Chronicle of Judgment Time" has appeared on the Internet. The video tells the story of the repressed leader of the campaign "Tell the Truth", poet Uladzimir Niakliayeu.
26.12.2012 Vasil Parfiankou appeals parole denial
An appeal has been submitted on behalf of political prisoner Vasil Parfiankou to challenge a decision to deny his early release request reportedly taken on 13 December at the Baranavichy-based arrest house No. 6.
26.12.2012 Political prisoner Aliaksandr Frantskevich in solitary confinement for third time this year
Tatsiana Frantskevich, mother of the imprisoned anarchist, is going to Ivatsevichy colony together with a lawyer to learn about her son’s health. Aliaksandr Frantskevich has only one kidney, and his mother is afraid that being held in a punishment cell could harm his physical condition.
25.12.2012 Vasil Parfiankou: "In Search of Freedom" (video)
A new film in the series "The Chronicle of Judgment Time" appeared on the Internet. The video entitled "In Search of Freedom" is dedicated to political prisoner Vasil Parfiankou, who is currently serving a sentence in the Western city of Baranavichy.
19.12.2012 U.S. State Department: We remember about political prisoners
At the second anniversary of the protests in Minsk State Department demanded from the Government of Belarus to release political prisoners.
19.12.2012 Two years after: Political prisoners are still behind bars, human rights violated
Human rights defenders describe the human rights situation in 2012 as "consistently poor", just like it was back in 2011. The ongoing suppressing of civil and political rights, administrative and criminal proceedings against the regime's opponents continue.
18.12.2012 Prisoner Mikalay Statkevich Does Not Receive “Novy Chas” Newspaper
The editorial office of the newspaper Novy Chas (New Times) struggles for the right of the political prisoner to get the independent newspaper.
18.12.2012 Dashkevich and Lobau: Two years behind bars
The Young Front leader was to be released from prison today.
