News on the topic: political prisoners
09.10.2014 Political prisoner Vaskovich to be transferred to penal colony soon
Yauhen Vaskovich, who is serving a seven-year prison term for hooligan actions towards the building of the Babruisk KGB office, will be transferred from the cell-type prison No.4 to the penal colony No. 15 due to the expiry of the three-year term of keeping in the high-security prison. Both corrective institutions are situated in Mahiliou.
07.10.2014 Salihorskers send solidarity postcards to political prisoners (photos)
In Salihorsk, civil society activists have again sent postcards with words of support to Belarusian political prisoners.
06.10.2014 Yury Rubtsou sentenced to 18 months of personal restraint
Today, October 6, socio-political activist Yury Rubtsou has been sentenced to 2.5 years of personal restraint. However, the sentence has been reduced to 1.5 years due to the amnesty. Therefore, the defendant will have to serve 1.5 years of personal restraint.
06.10.2014 Ex-political prisoner Aliaksandr Frantskevich is blocked at home
Since 6 a.m., police have been trying to get to the Minsk apartment where the former political prisoner Aliaksandr Frantskevich lives. The reasons remain unknown.
06.10.2014 Eduard Lobau doesn't receive warm clothes in prison
The political prisoner continues to wear summer clothes, thought the weather became significantly colder.
30.09.2014 Ales Bialiatski: Awarding of the Vaclav Havel Prize - a strong signal to the Azerbaijani authorities
Ales Bialiatski, head of the Human Rights Centre "Viasna" and Vice-President of the International Federation for Human Rights, was in Strasbourg at the opening session of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe, where on September 29 has been named the winner of the Vaclav Havel Prize on human rights.
29.09.2014 Vasil Parfenkou doesn’t receive his friends’ letters again
Activist Volga Mikalajchyk is saying so, she regularly has been writing to the political prisoner Vasil Parfiankou.
25.09.2014 Vice-speaker of the Bundestag is going to support all political prisoners in Belarus
Vice-speaker of the Bundestag Katrin Göring-Eckardt, the representative of the Green Party, has congratulated the head of the Human Rights Center "Viasna" Ales Bialiatski on his birthday, which he celebrates today.
23.09.2014 Mother of Yauhen Vaskovich is waiting for his transferring to the colony in October
Mother of Yauhen Vaskovich said that in mid-October her son should be transferred to the Mogilev colony #15,where the he served sentence before being transferred to the prison #4.
22.09.2014 Political prisoner Mikalaj Dziadok spent 20 days in punishment cell
Political prisoner Mikalaj Dziadok, who is serving a sentence in Mogilev prison #4, spent 20 days in a punishment cell. Prison administration punished him for violating established for prisoners rule connected with uniforms. The father of the political prisoner Aliaxander Dziadok said about it to Human Rights Defenders.
15.09.2014 Prison censors confiscated Mikalai Statkevich's letter to his father
Censors of the Mahiliou prison, where the former presidential candidate Mikalai Statkevich is serving his term, seized his letter to his father, Viktar Statkievich. This happened for the first time in nearly four years, notes Mikalai's wife, Maryna Adamovich.
11.09.2014 Viktar Statkevich and Maryna Adamovich ask police to find author of anonymous threat letter
The father of Mikalai Statkevich, Viktar Statkevich, and the five of the former, Maryna Adamovich, appealed to the police in connection with an anonymous threat letter, thrown into the postbox of Viktar Statkevich on September 8.
10.09.2014 Baranavichy: Statkevich-senior received an anonymous threat letter
September 8 Viktar Statkevich, father of the political prisoner Mikalai Statkevich, received an anonymous letter with threats to his son Mikalai and the son's wife, Maryna Statkevich.
29.08.2014 Political prisoner Vasil Parfiankou to celebrate birthday in prison
On August 30, political prisoner Vasil Parfiankou is going to celebrate another birthday in prison. The activist was taken into custody on December 5, 2013 after he was convicted under Article 421 of the Criminal Code (“non-compliance with preventive supervision restrictions”).
25.08.2014 Lawyer allowed to visit political prisoner Vasil Parfiankou
Vasil Parfiankou’s counsel has been allowed to visit the political prisoner in the Horki penal colony and is going to see him in the near future. Obtaining such permission was difficult, Radio Liberty’s Belarus service reports.
