News on the topic: political prisoners
30.08.2024 Statement on the recognition of five people as political prisoners
Joint statement by the Belarusian human rights community
29.08.2024 Political prisoner list in Belarus expanded by six names
Joint statement by the Belarusian human rights community
29.08.2024 Viasna appealed to the UN Working Group on the political prisoner sentenced to imprisonment for solidarity
Viasna sent a complaint to the UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention against 64-year-old political prisoner Iryna Takarchuk, who was sentenced to three years’ imprisonment.
28.08.2024 Another political prisoner sentenced for 'Malicious disobedience to the prison administration'
On June 12, Žodzina City Court held a trial on political prisoner Yahor Ibrahimau, who was sentenced to four years in prison. He was charged under Part 1 of Article 411 of the Criminal Code.
26.08.2024 "Innocent people are forced to appeal to the dictator for their release." Pavel Sapelka on the appeal for amnesty
In Belarusian penal colonies and prisons, political prisoners convicted on arbitrary charges face additional pressure: they are forced to confess to crimes they did not commit.
25.08.2024 Statement on the recognition of seven people as political prisoners
Joint statement by the Belarusian human rights community
23.08.2024 Statement on the recognition of 14 people as political prisoners
Joint statement by the Belarusian human rights community
22.08.2024 150 days in a punitive isolation cell and not a single meeting in three years. The story of a former political prisoner from Zaslaŭje
From March to June 2022, Siarhei was held in a punitive isolation cell, without bed linen, daily walks, and the possibility of buying in a prison shop.
22.08.2024 More than 20 political prisoners were released on pardon, including Kseniya Lutskina and Vasil Berasneu
Human rights defenders do not publish the names of other released prisoners for their safety.
21.08.2024 Statement on the recognition of 10 people as political prisoners
Joint statement by the Belarusian human rights community
21.08.2024 Political prisoner Aliaksandr Frantskevich was sentenced to another year of imprisonment
He was charged under Part 2 of Article 411 of the Criminal Code (malicious disobedience to the administration of the colony).
21.08.2024 Three new godparents from Germany for political prisoners in Belarus
As part of #WeStandBYyou campaign, Peter Heidt (Freie Demokraten), Luiza Licina-Bode (Sozialdemokratische Partei Deutschlands) and Bruno Hönel (Bündnis 90/Die Grünen) have taken on a godparenthood of Aliaksei Barodka, Siarhei Shametska and Cheslau Kananovich.
19.08.2024 #FramedinBelarus: Towards Solidarity. Exhibition opens in Norway
On August 24, 2024, at the Kunstbanken Center for Contemporary Art (Hamar, Norway), the Stitchit art collective, together with Amnesty International Norway's Senior Advisor for Eastern Europe and Central Asia, Ana Tusvik Bonde, will open exhibition #FramedinBelarus: Towards Solidarity.
19.08.2024 The trial in the Mačuliščy case has begun in Minsk
The case is handled by Valiantsina Ziankevich behind closed doors.
19.08.2024 Viasna volunteer Andrei Chapiuk placed in an isolation cell a day before a meeting with his parents
The reason: "violation of the clothing regulations."
