News on the topic: political prisoners
25.08.2015 Political prisoners released in Belarus
The Danish Institute for Human Rights welcomes the release of six political prisoners by the president Lukashenko.
25.08.2015 Ukrainian Filmmaker Sentenced To 20 Years On Terror Charges
A court in the southern Russian city of Rostov-on-Don has sentenced to 20 years in prison an acclaimed Ukrainian film director who had been accused of masterminding terrorist attacks in Crimea.
24.08.2015 Human Rights Center "Viasna" welcomes release of six political prisoners and calls on authorities to take more steps aimed at systemic changes of human rights situation in Belarus. A statement.
The Human Rights Center "Viasna" welcomes the release of six political prisoners and calls on the authorities to take more steps aimed at systemic changes in the field of human rights in Belarus
24.08.2015 Statkevch to remain under police supervision
The former political prisoner received a release certificate.
24.08.2015 U.S., EU Welcome Release Of Belarus Opposition Figures
The U.S. State Department has welcomed the release from prison of Belarus opposition politician and former presidential candidate Mikalay Statkevich and five others.
22.08.2015 Viasna welcomes release of political prisoners and calls for further steps to improve human rights situation in Belarus
The Human Rights Center "Viasna" welcomes the release of six political prisoners – Mikalai Statkevich, Mikalai Dziadok, Ihar Alinevich, Yauhen Vaskovich, Artsiom Prakapenka and Yury Rubtsou, and calls on the Belarusian authorities to take more steps in order to improve the situation in the field of fundamental civil and political rights, said Valiantsin Stefanovich, Deputy Chairman of the Human Rights Center "Viasna".
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...
