News on the topic: political prisoners
18.02.2015 Yauhen Vaskovich not allowed to read Criminal Code
As it became known, after a meeting with his mother in Mahiliou colony No. 15 political prisoner Yauhen Vaskovich was forbidden to take legal literature, including the Criminal Code and the Code for Criminal Procedures, the pres service of the Belarusian Association of Journalists reports.
18.02.2015 Mikalai Dziadok to stand trial on 25 February
The trial of political prisoner Mikalai Dziadok will be held on 25 February in the Mahiliou-based prison No. 4.
16.02.2015 Campaign in support of political prisoner Yauhen Vaskovich launched in Minsk
On Monday, 16 February, the Day of Solidarity with Belarusian political prisoners, all concerned citizens are invited to the Minsk-based office of the electronic industry trade union, to sign greeting cards for political prisoner Yauhen Vaskovich.
16.02.2015 Mikalai Statkevich reports limited access to information
Political prisoner Mikalai Statkevich, the only candidate in the presidential election of 2010 still held in prison, has sent a letter to journalist Barys Vyrvich, which he received on 13 February. The letter was written by Mikalai Statkevich on 7 February.
12.02.2015 Yury Rubtsou faces new criminal case
February 11, Chairman of the Human Rights Center "Viasna" Ales Bialiatski and deputy chairmanValiantsin Stefanovich visited political prisoner Yury Rubtsou in the open correctional facility located in the village of Kuplin in Pruzhany district.
11.02.2015 Yury Rubtsou: «May be, they want to isolate me»
February 9 Yury Rubtsou was summoned to the Pruzhany District Department of the Investigative Committee. The investigator compiled a document that the prisoner refused to give explanations.
09.02.2015 Yauhen Vaskovich's friends ask to support him with letters
Halina Smirnova, Chair of Babruisk organization of the Independent Trade Union of Radio Electronic Industry, says that Yauhen Vaskovich lacks support from outside.
09.02.2015 Yury Rubtsou is questioned at Investigation Committee
February 9, Homel activist Yury Rubtsou, who is serving a sentence in an open correctional facility in the village of Kuplin (Pruzhany district), was taken to the District Investigative Committee for questioning. The political prisoner managed to report it over the phone.
08.02.2015 Yury Rubtsou claims recovery of 125 mln roubles as moral damages and and passing it to publishing house “Lohvinau”
A resident of Homel Yury Rubtsou who is now serving a personal restraint term in the vllage of Kuplin in the Pruzhany district, has sent a petition to the court of the Savetski district of Minsk for the recovery of moral damage. The defendant in the lawsuit is Judge Kiryl Palulekh.
05.02.2015 Conditions in open correctional facility provoke violations
It is very hard for the people serving their terms of personal restraint at the open correctional facility No. 7 in the village of Kuplin in the Pruzhany district, to keep to the daily routine.
03.02.2015 Ex-political prisoner Aliaksandr Frantskevich sentenced to 25 days of arrest
February 3, Minsk's Savetski District Court heard an administrative case against an activist of the anarchist movement, ex-political prisoner Aliaksandr Frantskevich. The case was considered by Judge Artsiom Biaskishski.
02.02.2015 Political prisoner Ihar Alinevich put in penal cell again
This is at least the fifth incarceration during the time he has spent in the correctional colony “Vitsba”.
02.02.2015 Political prisoner Yury Rubtsou gets a warning on stopping his hunger-strike
February 1, political prisoner Yury Rubtsou, who is serving a sentence in the open correctional facility No. 7 in the village of Kulin (Pruzhany district), stopped his hunger-strike.
02.02.2015 Mikalai Statkevich not allowed to work in jail
The political prisoner has been transferred from the quarantine unit to the general unit in the Shklou correctional facility No. 17.
28.01.2015 Prison authorities ignore hunger strike by Yury Rubtsou
Political prisoner Yury Rubtsou, who is serving a sentence in special settlement No. 7 in the village of Kuplin, Pruzhany district, has been on a hunger strike since January 22. Nevertheless, the administration has not yet officially registered the protest in the prison’s medical facility.
