News on the topic: political prisoners
21.08.2015 Investigative Committee charges suspects in ‘graffiti case’
The Investigative Committee has officially charged youth activists Maksim Piakarski and Vadzim Zharomski under Part 2, Art. 339 of the Criminal Code, “hooliganism committed by a group of persons”, after they were detained for inscribing graffiti and smearing a billboard in Minsk.
21.08.2015 Protesters call to release graffiti makers
On August 20 there was held a picket to support graffiti makers next to the pretrial detention facility No. 1, Valadarskaha Str.
19.08.2015 Yauhen Vaskovich’s mother: “Son is well, we hope for a quick release”
Rushaniya Vaskovich, mother of political prisoner Yauhen Vaskovich, has told mahilyowspring.org that she received a letter from her son.
17.08.2015 Prison censors hold letters to Mikalai Statkevich
Barys Vyrvich, a journalist in the town of Bialyničy, received on August 15 another letter from political prisoner Mikalai Statkevich, which said that instead of his latest letter the prisoner had received an empty envelope.
14.08.2015 Pavel Sapelka: Interior Ministry arbitrarily, without sufficient justification, reduces the already limited rights of prisoners
Prison censors did not allow Yauhen Vaskovich inquire about the possibility of distance learning at European Humanitarian University.
14.08.2015 Bundestag member Manuel Sarrazin: Mikalai Dziadok needs our support
Manuel Sarrazin, a German politician and Bundestag member (Alliance 90/The Greens), calls to express solidarity with Belarusian political prisoners.
13.08.2015 Portraits of Mikalai Statkevich seen at electoral pickets in Babrujsk (photos)
On Mikalai Statkevich's birthday, collectors of signatures in Babrujsk decided to remind citizens about political prisoners. Members of the initiative groups of Anatol Liabedzka and Tatsiana Karatkevich put on T-shirts with portraits of Mr. Statkevich and also placed such portraits on their stands.
13.08.2015 Ales Bialiatski: Repressive machinery is ready to repeat 2010
Lukashenka continues selling political prisoners.
12.08.2015 Join the action dedicated to Mikalai Statkevich's birthday!
Today, August 12, the Belarusian political prisoner Mikalai Statkevich, who is the last candidate for presidency in the 2010 elections who is still held in jail, celebrates his birthday. He will spend another birthday in prison, in a one-man cell, without seeing the sky and the trees, without hearings the birds singing...
12.08.2015 Ihar Alinevich faces another disciplinary punishment in correctional colony
According to the information, reported to the Human Rights Center “Viasna” by the mother of Ihar Alinevich, Valiantsina Alinevich, the political prisoner is waiting for a decision about a new disciplinary punishment.
11.08.2015 Yury Rubtsou got transferred to Babrujsk colony
As the HRC “Viasna” learned on August 11, political prisoner Yury Rubtsou was transferred to penal colony №2 in Babrujsk. Most probably, it was done at the weekend, as on Friday he was still in the remand prison in Baranavičy.
07.08.2015 Constitutional Court decided not to deal with violation of Andrei Haidukou's rights
BCD activist Andrei Haidukou has received an answer from the Constitutional Court regarding his appeal concerning the contradiction between a resolution of Navapolack City Executive Committee regarding a mass event and the international undertakings of Belarus.
07.08.2015 Pavel Sapelka comments on the decision to extend preventive supervision over Mikalai Autukhovich
August 6, Vaŭkavysk District Court reconsidered the case on the extension of preventive supervision over the former political prisoner Mikalai Autukhovich without his participation. Autukhovich himself is still in the local hospital after a hypertensive crisis.
06.08.2015 Mikalai Autukhovich taken to hospital with hypertensive crisis
Most likely, Mikalai Autukhovich is having a hypertensive crisis: his blood pressure has increased rapidly, he is feeling unwell, having headaches... Most probably, this is result of the unpleasant events of the last days and the heat …
06.08.2015 Ex-political prisoner Mikalai Autukhovich: The circus show is going on!
It will be decided at the trial today whether police supervision over Mikalai Autukhovich will be extended.
