26.01.2015 Political prisoner Statkevich accused of “avoiding community service”

The confinement regime for Mikalai Statkevich has not been changed. He wrote it to his wife Maryna Adamovich. The authorities of the Shklou prison think he “failed to choose a course of correction”, BelaPAN reports.

22.01.2015 Yury Rubtsou goes on indefinite hunger strike

The political prisoner demands a job with the country's average salary of $600.

22.01.2015 Human rights organizations demand an immediate cessation of the criminal prosecution of political prisoner Mikalai Dziadok and his release from jail

FIDH, HRC "Viasna" and BHC express deep concern with the serious threats to the life and health of Mikalai Dziadok and emphasize that the entire responsibility for his safety and protection lies with the administration of the prison No. 4 in Mahiliou and the management of the Department of Corrections of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Republic of Belarus.

20.01.2015 Political prisoner Yury Rubtsou receives tablet and TV set from activists

Activists raised money and bought food and devices for the political prisoner.

19.01.2015 Mikalai Statkevich faces two violation reports after transfer to Shklou colony

Political prisoner Mikalai Statkevich has been accused of two violations in just two days of his stay in the Shklou penal colony.

16.01.2015 Political prisoner Vaskovich waits for permission for long-term meeting

The mother of the political prisoner waits for a meeting with her son.

Rushania Vaskovich said it to charter97.org in an interview.

14.01.2015 Mikalai Dziadok's mother asks MIA to stop haunting her son

Valiantsina Dziadok, the mother of the political prisoner Mikalai Dziadok, has addressed the Ministry of Internal Affairs with an open letter in which she expresses serious concern about the fate of her son, the pressure on whom in prison has been increased drastically in the recent time. She has told human rights defenders of the Human Rights Centre "Viasna" about it.

14.01.2015 Political prisoner Mikalai Statkevich sent back to colony in Shklou

A former candidate for Presidency in Belarus, Mikalai Statkevich, has been transferred back to the colony No. 17 in Shklou from Mahiliou prison No. 4.

10.01.2015 Yuru Rubtsou: other convicts are being set up against me

In a telephone conversation with human rights defenders from “Viasna” the political prisoner Yury Rubtsou, reported that the administration of the special settlement №7, where he is serving his sentence, was trying to set up against the political prisoners against him.

02.01.2015 Statkevich Sr. congratulated on the New Year

January 1, Baranavichy social activists and human rights defenders and congratulated Viktar Statkevich, the father of the political prisoner and ex-presidential candidate Mikalai Statkevich on the New Year. This is the fifth New Year Viktar Statkevich has to celebrate without his son.

02.01.2015 Biaroza activists visit Yury Rubtsou

Since December 22 Homel resident Yury Rubtsou, sentenced to 18 months of personal restraint (after the use of amnesty), has been kept in the open penitentiary institution No. 7 in the village of Kuolin in Pruzhany district, where a co-chairman of the Belarusian Christian Democracy Pavel Seviarynets used to serve his 3-year term of personal restraint.

02.01.2015 National Human Rights Award 2014

The website charter97.org announced winners of the National Human Rights Award 2014.

29.12.2014 Political prisoner Ihar Alinevich visited by parents

Political prisoner Ihar Alinevich, who was sentenced to eight years in prison under strict regime, has been allowed to see his parents during a long meeting, which however lasted only 24 hours instead of the usual three days, according to Valiantsina Alinevich, the political prisoner’s mother.

24.12.2014 Yauhen Vaskovich receives medicines and clothes

Rushaniya Vaskovich, the mother of political prisoner Yauhen Vaskovich, said that she had visited the Mahiliou-based penal colony No. 15 to pass him medicines and vitamins, as her son had health problems.

23.12.2014 Expert opinion on the case of Homel activist Yury Rubtsou

On December 21, it was reported that opposition activist Yury Rubtsou had been sent to open-type correctional facility No. 7 in the village of Kuplin, Pruzhany district, Brest region.