News on the topic: political prisoners
02.12.2014 Ales Bialiatski calls on the Danish MFA not to decrease the level of demands to the Belarusian regime
December 1 in Copenhagen, Chairman of the Human Rights Center "Viasna" Ales Bialiatski met with the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Denmark Martin Lidegard.
01.12.2014 Political prisoner Eduard Lobau marks 26th birthday
Eduard Lobau was born in Vilnius on December 1, 1988.
27.11.2014 Political prisoner Lobau not released but already supervised
Eduard Lobau, who should have been released on December 18 after 4 year imprisonment, is preventively supervised.
20.11.2014 Political prisoner Mikalai Dziadok faces one more year in prison
On November 20, it was reported that a criminal case was opened against political prisoner Mikalai Dziadok under Part 1, Article 411 of the Criminal Code - willful disobedience of the lawful demands of the administration of the correctional institution. As a result, he may be sentenced to one more year of imprisonment.
16.11.2014 Brest region expresses solidarity with political prisoners (Photo)
Four cities of Brest region - Brest, Biaroza, Zhabinka, Kobryn held acts of solidarity with political prisoners on November 16.
29.10.2014 Vasil Parfiankou spent 90% of the sentence in separate cell
The political prisoner Vasil Parfiankou came back from one more isolation ward, where he spent 10 days because, according to him, the violation that was just contrived by the administration.
27.10.2014 Mikalai Dziadok treats himself on his own in prison
Mikalai Dzyadok reads a lot and goes in for sports in prison in order to be in better physical shape till the time of his release in 4 months.
23.10.2014 Ihar Alinevich released after 30 days from isolation ward
Political prisoner Ihar Alinevich spent 30 days in an isolation ward of Vitebsk colony. He was punished with a isolation ward for refusing to wash toilets.
20.10.2014 Parfiankou is again in an isolation ward
The fact that Vasil Parfiankou again got in an isolation ward said activist Volha Mikalaichyk, who is in correspondence with the political prisoner.
19.10.2014 Mikalai Statkevich – for Baranovichi human rights defenders: "I'm all right and not going to change my position"
Former presidential candidate Mikalai Statkevich, who is serving a six-year sentence in Mogilev prison # 4, sent a letter to Baranovichi human rights defenders.
17.10.2014 Political prisoner Alinevich is being threatened to be transferred from the colony to the closed prison.
Administration of the colony "Vitsba-3" expressed a threat to transfer the political prisoner to the closed prison during a conversation with family and lawyer of Ihar Alinevich.
15.10.2014 Join the campaign for the liberation of Pavel Vinahradau!
The Human Rights Centre "Viasna" encourages colleagues, friends and associates to join the campaign for the liberation of the civil society activist Pavel Vinahradau.
15.10.2014 FIDH and Human Rights Centre “Viasna” demand to stop harassment of civil society activist Pavel Vinahradau
International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH) and the Human Rights Center "Viasna" protest and outrage over the illegal actions of the Belarusian authorities in respect to the opposition activist Pavel Vinahradau.
14.10.2014 Andrei Kasheuski gets 15 days of arrest for “Freedom to Political Prisoners”
Smaliavichy activist and newspaper distributor Andrei Kasheuski was detained back on October 9 for walking near the central department store in Minsk (TsUM) in a T-shirt “Freedom to Political Prisoners” with the names of the prisoners on the back.
13.10.2014 Political prisoner Alinevich thrown into penal cell
Ihar Alinevich will spend 10 days in a penal cell.
