News on the topic: political prisoners
09.12.2008 Alexander Barazenka is sentenced to one year of personal restraint
The hearings on the criminal case against Alexander Barazenka at Tsentralny district court came to an end. Procurator Tsikhavets demanded that the accused was sentenced to 18 months of personal restraint without direction to an open prison. Alexander Barazenka did not take the blame.
09.12.2008 Communist secretary and BRSM ‘specialist’ Tsiukhai organizes provocation at political trial
RFE/RL found out the name of a person who took students of Belarusian Agricultural Technical University to the trial over the political prisoner and insulted Alexander Barazenka’s mother.
09.12.2008 Trial over Barazenka: policemen beat youth leader Andrei Kim
Policemen in mufti beat the youth leader Andrei Kim near Tsentralny district court of Minsk, where the political prisoner Alexander Barazenka was tried. Kim was beaten when Barazenka was being taken out of the court and the people who came to support him started chanting ‘Freedom!’ and ‘Long Live Belarus!’ Three policemen in mufti assaulted him.
08.12.2008 Fireworks in honor of Alexander Barazenka
On 7 December, the last day before the trial, a rally of solidarity with the imprisoned activist of European Belarus campaign Ales Barazenka was held in front of the remand prison in Valadarski Street.
08.12.2008 Katsiaryna Salauyova is charged with assault on policeman
20-year-old Young Front activist Katsiaryna Salauyova, detained on 6 December after a rally of solidarity with Alexander Barazenka, has been released. However, prosecutor’s office launched a check over beating of a policeman by her.
05.12.2008 Hunger-strike on Human Rights Day
On 10 December the Young Front declares a nationwide hunger-strike to mark the end of the organization’s campaign ‘Communism must be brought to tribunal!’. As the Young Front press service informs, at first the organization intended to finish the anti-communist campaign on 8 December, the day when the USSR dissolved. However, later it was decided to postpone the end of the campaign because of the trial over the political prisoner Alexander Barazenka that will start on 10 December as well.
05.12.2008 Minsk: actions in support of Alexander Barazenka continue
Everyday at 7 p.m. young people gather near the doors of the remand prison in Valadarski street to express their solidarity with the political prisoner.
03.12.2008 Polatsk: police detain participants of action in support of political prisoner Barazenka
A young activist from Polatsk Ales Krutkin and two his fellow activists planned to hold a rally in support of political prisoner Alexander Barazenka.
02.12.2008 Minsk: action of solidarity with political prisoner Barazenka
An action of solidarity with political prisoner Alexander Barazenka was traditionally held near the prison in Valadarski Street of Minsk yesterday.
20.11.2008 Warsaw University Students organised action in support of Alyaksandr Barazenka
On November 20, students of Warsaw University held a n information picket in support of political prisoner Alyaksandr Barazenka, activist of the civil initiative “European Belarus”, who studied in Wroclaw.
19.11.2008 Authorities hide truth about political prisoner Barazenka
A lawyer wasn’t allowed to visit political prisoner Barazenka, activist of the civil campaign “European Belarus”, kept in a detention facility in Valadarski Street.
19.11.2008 Lawyer not allowed to meet with defendant Barazenka
Barazenka's lawyer was not allowed to visit the political prisoner, kept in a detention facility in Valadarski Street.
18.11.2008 Corrupted judges remain at their posts. Yesman to try political prisoner
Judges, accused by Lukashenka in corruption, continue to work; one of them, Yesman, will try political prisoner Aliaksandar Barazenka.
17.11.2008 Political prisoner Barazenka goes on hunger strike
Activist of the civil campaign “European Belarus” Aliaksandar Barazenka has gone on a protest hunger strike in the Minsk detention facility and is going to continue it unless he is released. He wrote this in a letter to his friends. The letter was written on November 10, so the strike may be lasting for a week.
11.11.2008 Siarhei Skrabets is denied employment at Minsk Automobile Plant for political reasons
The former member of the house of representatives and opposition politician Siarhei Skrabets can’t find a job. Another attempt to apply for a job of a foreman in a foundry shop of the Minsk Automobile Plant (MAZ) was unsuccessful. Though there is a vacancy here, Skrabets was denied the job.
