News on the topic: political prisoners
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Human rights defenders do not publish the names of other released prisoners for their safety.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."
19.08.2024 "Where have you been?" Ex-political prisoner writing poetry for prison guard
"The KGB officers asked if I had contacted Viasna."
16.08.2024 "I allegedly wanted to organize a strike in the industrial zone by the first anniversary of the protests". The story of a former political prisoner
Hleb told Viasna about writing a statement of refusal to work and being accused of preparing a strike for the first anniversary of the elections at the industrial zone in Navapolack colony No. 1.
14.08.2024 The pressure continues: what happened to political prisoners between July 16 and August 12
For more than four years law enforcement agencies in Belarus have been carrying out mass repressions. Almost every week the number of political prisoners in the country increases.
14.08.2024 We demand the rehabilitation of 22 former political prisoners
Joint statement by the Belarusian human rights community
13.08.2024 "I still have a scar on my foot from the shoe." How colonies regulate women's appearance
Today in Belarus 1,253 women who are convicted in politically motivated cases. 288 of them were sentenced to imprisonment.
