News on the topic: political prisoners
19.09.2020 Arrested lawyer Maksim Znak declares hunger strike to protest criminal charges
Maksim Znak, lawyer and member of the presidium of the Coordination Council, has been officially charged under Part 3 of Art. 361 (calls for actions aimed at harming the national security of the Republic of Belarus) of the Criminal Code. In an act of protest, the arrested lawyer went on a hunger strike, according to his counsel Dzmitry Layeuski.
17.09.2020 12 more persons called political prisoners over "rioting" charges
Joint statement by the human rights organizations of Belarus
17.09.2020 Maryia Kalesnikava faces formal charges
Maryia Kalesnikava, member of the presidium of the Coordination Council and former campaign manager of presidential nominee Viktar Babaryka, has been officially charged under Part 3 of Art. 361 of the Criminal Code (calls for actions aimed at harming the national security of the Republic of Belarus committed with the use of the media and the Internet).
15.09.2020 Three more German MPs take over godparenthood for Belarusian political prisoners
As part of the solidarity campaign #WeStandBYyou of Libereco – Partnership for Human Rights, three more MPs have taken over a godparenthood for political prisoners in Belarus. Aydan Özoguz (German Bundestag, SPD) Sergey Lagodinsky (European Parliament, Bündnis 90/Die Grünen) und Claudia Müller (German Bundestag, Bündnis 90/Die Grünen) call for their immediate and unconditional release.
12.09.2020 Human rights organisations call for immediate release of detained lawyers
Open statement in connection with the detention of Belarusian lawyers Ilya Salei and Maksim Znak
11.09.2020 MPs from Lithuania, Netherlands and Switzerland take over prisoners’ godparenthood for Viktar Babaryka, Aliaksandr Aranovich and Aliaksandr Frantskevich
As part of the solidarity campaign #WeStandBYyou of Libereco – Partnership for Human Rights, three more MPs have taken over a godparenthood for political prisoners in Belarus. Petras Austriavičius (European Parliament, Lithuania) Tineke Strik (European Parliament, Netherlands) and Fabian Molina (National Council, Switzerland) call for their immediate and unconditional release.
10.09.2020 Kalesnikava, Znak and Salei are new political prisoners
Joint statement of Belarusian human rights organizations
08.09.2020 HRDs call to end repression and release political prisoners
Joint statement of Belarusian human rights organizations
04.09.2020 More arrested protesters called political prisoners
Joint statement of human rights organizations of Belarus
03.09.2020 Members of the German Bundestag take over prisoners’ godparenthood for Eduard Babaryka, Siarhei Piatrukhin and Aliaksandr Kabanau
As part of the solidarity campaign #WeStandBYyou of Libereco – Partnership for Human Rights, three other members of the German Bundestag have taken over a godparenthood for political prisoners in Belarus. Karl-Heinz Brunner (SPD), Omid Nouripour (Bündnis 90/Die Grünen) and Frank Schwabe (SPD) demand their immediate and unconditional release.
02.09.2020 Political prisoner Alena Karahachava released on bail
Alena Karahachava, personal assistant to the former presidential candidate Viktar Babaryka, has been released from the KGB pre-trial prison, according to Babaryka’s press-service. The charges, however, remain in place.
01.09.2020 Political prisoner Pavel Seviarynets faces formal charges
Pavel Seviarynets, co-founder of the Belarusian Christian Democracy party who has been in detention since June 7, has been officially charged under Part 2, Art. 293 of the Criminal Code (mass riots), according to his wife Volha. The period of his pre-trial detention has been extended by two more months.
28.08.2020 Nine more persons facing rioting charges called political prisoners
Human rights defenders demand an immediate release of political prisoners arrested in the framework of the “mass riots” criminal case - Joint statement of human rights organizations of Belarus
21.08.2020 After 75 days in prison, opposition activist Pavel Seviarynets suspected of plotting riots
Pavel Seviarynets, political prisoner and co-chairman of the Belarusian Christian Democracy party, will not be released after serving 75 days of administrative detention, according to his mother Tatsiana.
19.08.2020 HRDs call to release political prisoners held on rioting charges
Joint statement of the Belarusian human rights organizations
