News on the topic: political prisoners
07.07.2014 Political prisoner Vasil Parfiankou refuses to work for prison administration
Vasil Parfiankou was punished with solitary confinement for five days for refusing to enter the "voluntary work" in Horky penal colony.
04.07.2014 Ales Bialiatski meets European Parliament President
Belarusian human rights activist Ales Bialiatski and European Parliament President Martin Schulz exchanged information on the situation in Belarus.
04.07.2014 Biaroza human rights defenders intend to mark anniversary of Independence Declaration by picketing
Human rights defenders Siarhei Rusetski and Tamara Shchapiotkina filed an application for holding a picket on July 27 to remind Belarusian citizens about the Declaration of State Sovereignty of Belarus, adopted 24 years ago by the Supreme Council.
04.07.2014 Ales Bialiatski at European Parliament: I wasn't released from jail without any reasons
July 2, former political prisoner, head of the Human Rights Centre "Viasna" met in Strasbourg with Martin Schulz, who was re-elected president of the European Parliament, European Commissioner for Enlargement and Neighbourhood Policy Stefan Fule, Secretary General of the Council of Europe Thorbjorn Jagland and President of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe An Braser.
04.07.2014 European Parliament members urge to take political custody over Belarusian political prisoners
This could save political prisoners from greater pressure.
01.07.2014 Complete video of Ales Bialiatski's press conference for Lithuanian media
On 27 June in Vilnius, Head of the Human Rights Center "Viasna", vice-president of the International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH) and one of the founders of the Belarusian Human Rights House Ales Bialiatski gave a press conference for the Lithuanian media.
01.07.2014 Official Minsk is criticized in Baku over political prisoners
Two committees of the Parliamentary Assembly of the OSCE adopted resolutions on Belarus.
27.06.2014 Vasil Parfiankou: I have more than 20 violations
Human rights defender Anastasiya Loika has received a letter from political prisoner Vasil Parfiankou, who told her about his latest news.
25.06.2014 Great Britain demands release of political prisoners in Belarus
London welcomes the release of Ales Bialatski and calls upon Belarus authorities to release the rest of the political prisoners. This comes from Britain’s Minister for European Affairs David Lidington, BelaPAN reports.
22.06.2014 Soviet dissident Mikhail Kukabaka: Ales Bialiatski’s release manifestation of political expediency
Belarusian dissident and political prisoner of the Soviet times, Mikhail Kukabaka, having learned of the release of Ales Bialiatski from a report on the radio station “Echo of Moscow”, has written about it in a letter to the Human Rights Center “Viasna”.
20.06.2014 Political prisoner Vaskovich put in punishment cell
Wardens try to present Vaskovich as a “malicious violator”.
17.06.2014 Political prisoner Lobau meets with his mother in correctional facility
Maryna Lobava returned after a long-term visit to her son. She said it to charter97.org.
04.06.2014 Valiantsina Alinevich: in May, Ihar was treated with special attention in prison
Valiantsina Alinevich: in May, Ihar was treated with special attention in prison
03.06.2014 Mikalai Statkevich: “prone to assaults and escape”
“I had forgotten to tell you – I am still considered “prone to assaults and escapes”. Therefore, each month a pedagogic talk shall be held with me”, 2010 presidential candidate and political prisoner Mikalai Statkevich wrote in a letter to his wife.
29.05.2014 Mikalai Autukhovich not allowed to visit Minsk for medical examination
The police of Vaukavysk forbade the former political prisoner to leave the town for a medical examination.
