News on the topic: political prisoners
05.07.2024 Statement of human rights defenders of Belarus on recognition of 17 new political prisoners
Joint statement by the Belarusian human rights community
04.07.2024 The statement on the recognition of eight people as political prisoners
Joint statement by the Belarusian human rights community
02.07.2024 Digest of the released: at least 27 political prisoners were released in June, five of them were exchanged
What political prisoners served their sentences for and how many of them were held in places of captivity, Viasna recalls their cases.
02.07.2024 "It is impossible to transfer the medicines to him." What is known about Ales Bialiatski
July 14 will be the third anniversary of Ales Bialiatski, the founder of Viasna Human Rights Center, being held behind bars.
01.07.2024 Five Ukrainian political prisoners released on exchange
Natallia Zakharanka, Pavlo Kupriyenko, Liudmila Hancharenka, Katsiaryna Brukhanava, and Mikalai Shvets were released
26.06.2024 "He put a plastic bag over my head and started suffocating me." On the International Day against Torture, we speak about torture in Belarus
Together with the Torture Documentation Department and DIGNITY - Danish Institute against Torture, we talk about examples of torture.
25.06.2024 Statement on recognition of Andrzej Yukhnevich as a political prisoner
Joint statement by the Belarusian human rights community.
25.06.2024 We demand the rehabilitation of 22 former political prisoners
Joint statement by the Belarusian human rights community
21.06.2024 The statement on the recognition of 17 people as political prisoners
Joint statement by the Belarusian human rights community
20.06.2024 We demand to overturn the verdict against Leanid Sudalenka, to stop court arbitrariness and persecution of human rights defenders
Statement of the Viasna Human Rights Center
20.06.2024 The statement on the recognition of 15 people as political prisoners
Joint statement of the human rights coalition
19.06.2024 Three MPs from Finland, Germany and Italy take on godparenthood for political prisoners in Belarus
As part of solidarity campaign #WeStandBYyou, Oras Tynkkynen (Vihreä liitto, Suomen eduskunta, Finland), Pina Picierno (Partito Democratico, Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats, European Parliament, Italy) and Sandra Bubendorfer-Licht (Freie Demokratische Partei, German Bundestag) have taken on a godparenthood for Alesia Liantsevich, Katsiaryna Kalybenka and Anastasiya Lazarenka.
18.06.2024 "The head of the colony personally beats up political prisoners." A former prisoner speaks about the Viciebsk colony
He secretly brought the contacts of his cellmates out from prison and persuaded the "activists" to work with political prisoners.
18.06.2024 The statement on the recognition of 5 people as political prisoners
Statement by the human rights community of Belarus
17.06.2024 The pressure continues: what happened to political prisoners between May 23 and June 14
Viasna reports the latest news about political prisoners.
