News on the topic: political prisoners
11.08.2021 Human rights defenders demand retrials and release of three new political prisoners
Statement by the human rights community of Belarus
11.08.2021 Artsiom Bayarski, Dzmitry Hopta and Vitaliya Bandarenka 'adopted' by European MPs
As part of Libereco’s #WeStandBYyou solidarity campaign, Cathal Berry (Dáil Éireann, Independent, Ireland), Charlie Flanagan (Dáil Éireann, Fine Gael, Ireland) and Gabriele Bischoff (European Parliament, SPD, Germany) are taking over godparenthood for political prisoners in Belarus.
10.08.2021 10 more protesters recognized as political prisoners
Joint statement by the Belarusian human rights community
10.08.2021 Human rights organizations call to release 7 persons convicted in defamation trials
Joint statement by representatives of the Belarusian human rights community
06.08.2021 Release political prisoners Tatsiana Vadalazhskaya and Uladzimir Matskevich!
Joint statement by representatives of the Belarusian human rights community
06.08.2021 Two more political prisoners jailed over post-election rally in Žlobin
Political prisoners Mikalai Isayenka and Piotr Kanstantsinau were sentenced today by the Žlobin District Court to 18 and 24 months in prison on charges of “organizing or active participation in group actions that gravely breach public order” (Part 1 of Article 342 of the Criminal Code).
06.08.2021 Viasna’s Andrei Paluda leaves Belarus, describes detention conditions as inhuman
Andrei Paluda, human rights defender of the Human Rights Center "Viasna" and coordinator of the campaign “Human Rights Defenders against the Death Penalty in Belarus”, has left Belarus after detention and imminent criminal charges.
05.08.2021 Human rights groups call to release five new political prisoners
Joint statement by the Belarusian human rights community
05.08.2021 Political prisoner Andrei Novikau convicted in Viciebsk
The Kastryčnicki District Court of Viciebsk sentenced 50-year-old political prisoner Andrei Novikau, a volunteer with the nomination group of Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya, to two and a half years in a general- security penal colony.
04.08.2021 Political prisoner Ihar Laptanovich sentenced to 2 ½ years in prison
On August 4, the Maskoŭski District Court of Brest convicted twelve defendants in the seventh trial of the so-called “dancing protest case” (Part 1 of Art. 342 of the Criminal Code, participation in actions that grossly violate public order).
02.08.2021 Journalist Hardziyevich re-arrested after guilty verdict
The Ivanava District Court announced today a verdict in a criminal case against Siarhei Hardziyevich, a Drahičyn-based correspondent for online media outlet “Pieršy Rehijon”.
31.07.2021 Office for the Rights of Persons with Disabilities leaders released until trial
Siarhei Drazdouski and Aleh Hrableuski, respectively director and legal advisor of the Office for the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, have been released to await their trial under travel restrictions.
31.07.2021 Human rights organizations call to release 7 persons convicted in defamation trials
Joint statement by representatives of the Belarusian human rights community
30.07.2021 Nearly 4,700 protest-related criminal cases opened since August 2020
4,691 criminal cases related to protests have been launched since the rigged presidential election of August 9, 2020, the Investigative Committee of Belarus said.
30.07.2021 UN experts will examine the arbitrary detention of journalist Raman Pratasevich
The detention of Raman Pratasevich is emblematic of the Lukashenka regime’s unbridled repression of dissenting voices.
