News on the topic: political prisoners
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.
12.08.2024 Beatings, threats, inhuman conditions: what tortures Belarusians most often tell about. Statistics
The repression of Belarusian men and women who oppose the Lukashenka regime continues for the fourth year in a row.
07.08.2024 Political prisoner list in Belarus expanded by 10 names
Joint statement of the Belarusian human rights community
01.08.2024 At least 43 political prisoners released in July, 18 of them amnestied and pardoned
What political prisoners served their sentences for and how many of them were held in places of captivity, Viasna recalls their cases.
31.07.2024 The statement on the recognition of six people as political prisoners
Joint statement by the Belarusian human rights community
31.07.2024 Belarusian political prisoners in high-security prisons: pressure intensifies
Viasna reports how the administration of the colonies punishes political prisoners and which of the political prisoners are recognized as "malicious violators of the order."
30.07.2024 The statement on the recognition of 12 people as political prisoners
Joint statement by the Belarusian human rights community
26.07.2024 Statement by the human rights community of Belarus on the recognition of seven political prisoners
Statement by the human rights community of Belarus
25.07.2024 Statement on recognition of 13 people as political prisoners
Statement by the human rights community of Belarus
23.07.2024 "Such a diagnosis in Palina's conditions is like a death sentence." Political prisoner Sharenda-Panasiuk was diagnosed with chronic pancreatitis
Recently, Palina's relatives received an official response from the administration of the women's colony No. 24, which indicated that the woman was diagnosed with "moderate chronic pancreatitis."
