News on the topic: political prisoners
05.06.2015 FIDH: European governments must take action to release the political prisoners in Azerbaijan
One week before the opening ceremony of the first European Games in the history of the continent, FIDH calls on the European leaders to make the participation of their countries in the opening ceremony of the Games contingent upon the release of political prisoners and activists placed in pre-trial detention on trumped-up charges.
04.06.2015 Baranavičy: Yadviha Rubtsova visits her husband in prison
June 3 Yadviha Rubtsova, wife of political prisoner Yury Rubtsou, visited her husband, who is currently held in jail No.6 in Baranavičy. This is the first meeting of Mrs. Jadviha and her husband after the trial, which declared Yury Rubtsou guilty of evasion of serving punishment of restraint of liberty (Art. 415 of the Criminal Code), and punished him with two years of medium security colony, taking into account the unserved term of punishment.
02.06.2015 Mikalai Autukhovich is appealing alleged arrear in payment of insurance fees during his imprisonment
Former political prisoner and entrepreneur Mikalai Autukhovich continues to challenge the illegal actions of the Department of Social Protection Fund (SPF) of Vaŭkavysk district, which requires him to pay the debt on compulsory insurance payments to the budget provided for entrepreneurs.
02.06.2015 Biaroza officials again regard solidarity with political prisoners as "inciting ethnic hatred"
Biaroza human rights defenders and social activists have been again denied the opportunity to publicly voice their disagreement with the tax on the unemployed and the presence of political prisoners in the country.
01.06.2015 Situation of political prisoners in Belarus worsening
FIDH and its member organisation in Belarus, Human Rights Center "Viasna," are deeply concerned about the deteriorating detention conditions of political prisoners Yury Rubtsou, Makalai Statkevich, Mikalai Dziadok and Ihar Alynevich.
28.05.2015 Valyantsin Stefanovich: In colony Mikalai Dzyadok subjected to torture
The penitentiary system of Belarus has preserved many elements of totalitarian past.
28.05.2015 Ales Bialiatski: “Election” is show with pre-planned result
In fact, the “election campaign” has started with obvious signals of intimidation of the Belarusian society.
28.05.2015 Political prisoner Yury Rubtsou sentenced to two years in penal colony
The Pružany District Court has sentenced political prisoner Yury Rubtsou to two years of imprisonment in a minimum security penal colony on charges of evasion of serving his initial sentence.
27.05.2015 No news from Alinevich
For a long time there has been no information about the political prisoner Ihar Alinevich who serves his punishment in the colony Vitsba-3.
27.05.2015 Marieluise Beck, Member of German Bundestag demands: “Freedom for Ihar Alinevich!”
On the occasion of the fourth anniversary of the conviction of Ihar Alinevich, sentenced to 8 years in prison on 27 May 2011, Marieluise Beck, Speaker on Eastern European Politics of the Green Party Parliamentary Group in the German Bundestag and Prisoner’s Godparent for Ihar Alinevich, released a statement to demand his immediate release.
27.05.2015 Political prisoner Mikalai Dziadok gets 4 penalties in 2 weeks, twice put in penal cell
According to Valeryia Khotsina, wife of political prisoner Mikalai Dziadok, on May 12 he was transferred to a new place of imprisonment – colony No. 9 in Horki. The following day, May 13, he was placed in solitary confinement, where he spent 5 days.
26.05.2015 Infographics: Political prisoners in Belarus
Today, Belarusian prisons hold six political prisoners.
26.05.2015 Four years since Mikalai Statkevich was sentenced
Statement by Franz Thoennes (Social Democratic Party of Germany), Vice-Chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee in the German Bundestag
22.05.2015 Brest authorities confirm ban on picket of solidarity with political prisoners
Human rights defenders in Biaroza have received a reply from the Brest Regional Executive Committee signed by the deputy chairman Leanid Tsupryk. The letter concerned an earlier decision of the Biaroza executive committee to ban a picket scheduled for March 9.
21.05.2015 Riga summit: Human rights defenders urge to release all political prisoners
The participants of the Civil Society Forum held in Riga as part of the Eastern Partnership summit have demanded to release all political prisoners in the EaP member states without delay, euroradio.fm reports.
