News on the topic: criminal prosecution
21.10.2020 Austrian and German MPs take over godparenthood for Ihnat Sidorchyk, Dzianis Kireshchanka and Dzianis Chykaliou
As part of Libereco’s solidarity campaign #WeStandBYyou, Jürgen Hardt (Bundestag, Germany), Lukas Mandl (European Parliament, Austria) und Reinhold Lopatka (National Council, Austria) have taken over a godparenthood for political prisoners in Belarus. They demand their immediate and unconditional release.
21.10.2020 Human rights coalition calls 9 more persons political prisoners
Joint statement by the human rights organizations of Belarus
19.10.2020 Persons under house arrest are still political prisoners
Three political prisoners released from pre-trial detention after Aliaksandr Lukashenka’s visit to the KGB prison on October 10 have been placed under house arrest. Four more were subjected to less stringent restrictions, known as release on own recognizance.
19.10.2020 Libereco demands freedom for Swiss citizen arrested in Belarus
Natallia Hersche, Swiss-Belarusian dual citizen from St. Gallen, has been in a Belarusian prison for exactly one month today. She had travelled to her former home country in September and was arrested there during a peaceful women’s rally on 19 September.
19.10.2020 Vitaly Shklyarov, Liliya Ulasava released from pre-trial detention
Vitaly Shklyarov, a Belarusian-American political scientist facing politically motivated criminal charges in Belarus, has been released from pre-trial detention, according to his lawyer Anton Hashynski.
17.10.2020 Political prisoner Illia Salei is free
Illia Salei, a lawyer who was earlier arrested on criminal charges, has been released from pre-trial detention, according to reliable sources.
16.10.2020 What peaceful protesting is like in Belarus: Husband facing criminal charges, wife and children flee country
A man in Homieĺ is facing five years in prison for allegedly resisting the actions of police officers at a protest held on September 27, gomelspring.org said.
13.10.2020 Two more PandaDoc prisoners walk free
Political prisoners Yulia Shardyka and Uladzislau Mikhalap have been released today, according to their lawyers.
13.10.2020 Viasna calls to drop criminal charges against volunteer Andrei Chapiuk
Statement by the Board of the Human Rights Center “Viasna”
12.10.2020 2 political prisoners released on bail
Two political prisoners have been released from the KGB pre-trial prison, Belarusian state television said on October 11. Yury Vaskrasenski, a member of Viktar Babaryka's campaign team, and Dzmitry Rabtsevich, director of the PandaDoc office in Minsk, walked free to await trial under an obligation not to leave the country.
07.10.2020 20 new names on list of political prisoners
Human rights defenders call to release all persons facing "rioting" charges. Joint statement by the human rights organizations of Belarus
03.10.2020 Human rights groups call to release three opposition activists facing rioting charges
Joint statement by the human rights organizations of Belarus
02.10.2020 Write to Marfa!
Marathon of letters of solidarity for Viasna human rights activist Marfa Rabkova
30.09.2020 Convicted protesters in Maladziečna are political prisoners
Joint statement by the Belarusian human rights community on the sentencing of Uladzislau Yeustsihneyeu and Pavel Piaskou
29.09.2020 Two protesters go to prison over violence in election picket
Two men in Maladziečna, a city 70 kms northeast of Minsk, were found guilty today of using violence against riot police officers during a protest held on June 19. Pavel Piaskou, 31, was sentenced to three years and three months in prison, and Uladzislau Yeustsihneyeu, 25, was sentenced to three years, both under Art. 363, Part 2 of the Criminal Code.
