News on the topic: political prisoners
23.01.2014 1000 days in prison: action of solidarity with Statkevich
Member of the European Parliament Marek Migalski holds an action in the Polish town of Katowice to support the Belarusian political prisoner.
15.01.2014 Yauhen Vaskovich has served 247 days in penal cell
Executive secretary of the organizing committee of the party "Belarusian Christian Democracy Dzianis Sadouski said told the press service of the BCD on the situation of a political prisoner, member of the BCD Yauhen Vaskovich, who is under strongly pressurized by the administratioon of prison No. 4 in Mahiliou.
15.01.2014 Chair of the Brest Regional Court upholds the picket ban
Chairperson of the Brest Regional Court Tamara Suchok did not satisfy the lawsuit of Biaroza human rigths defenders against the ban on the picket they intended to hold on August 4 to support political prisoners, and left the prior verdict of the Biaroza District Court and the panel of judges of the Brest Regional Court unchanged.
15.01.2014 Biaroza human rights activists congratulated by Mikalai Autukhovich, Ales Bialiatski and Mikalai Statkevich
During the holidays, the political prisoners took the time to answer the congratulations of Biaroza human rights defenders and civil society activists.
14.01.2014 Ihar Alinevich: The best wish is be yourself
The political prisoner sent his mother a letter from Navapolatsk penal colony.
13.01.2014 Political prisoner Uladzimir Yaromenak not allowed making fir tree of plastic bags
Uladzimir Yaromenak told about the conditions in the jail in Baranavichy.
09.01.2014 Prison administration doesn't pass medical parcel to political prisoner Mikalai Autukhovich
According to Lidzia Avtukhovich, she sent her son the needed medication back on December 15. However, on December 26 she received a letter from him where he wrote that he still hadn't been handed over the medicines. "Sending a parcel from Vaukavyst to Hrodna may not take longer than two days”, said Lidziya Autukhovich. “ I'm very worried about why he delayed parcel . And I still do not have any information confirming its receipt.”
09.01.2014 Political prisoner Ales Bialiatski sends greetings to Baranavichy human rights defenders and civil society activists
Political prisoner Ales Bialiatski sent color postcards and congratulated Baranavichy human rights defenders Viachaslau Bolbat and Siarhei Housha and social activists Henadz Artsymenia, Anzhalika Kambalava and Viktar Syrytsa on the New Year and Christmas.
08.01.2014 Mikalai Statkevich passes holiday greetings to friends and relatives
His words were passed by his wife, Maryna Adamovich.
08.01.2014 Mikalai Autukhovich turns 51: “You cannot fully understand freedom if you have never been in captivity”
On 7 January political prisoner Mikalai Autukhovich turned 51. He has celebrated two previous birthdays in a cell on the ground floor of Hrodna prison.
06.01.2014 Vasil Parfiankou is kept in Zhodzina penitentiary
Former political prisoner Vasil Parfiankou is kept in the transit point of Zhodzina penitentiary, from which he will be transferred to Horki penitentiary.
06.01.2014 Trial of Aliaksandr Malchanau postponed to 9 December
On 4 January the first hearing in the case of preventive supervision for former political prisoner Aliaksandr Malchanau took place in the Barysau District Court .
06.01.2014 Statkevich's letter about protests in the Ukraine not let through by censorship
Political prisoner Mikalai Statkevich wrote his brother, who lives in Ukraine, about protests in Kyiv and the relations between Ukraine and Russia. But the letter didn't leave the prison in Mahiliou, where the former presidential candidate serves his term.
06.01.2014 Autukhovich's wife says her husband is provoked to violate the prison regime
After the last meeting with political prisoner Mikalai Autukhovich his wife Alena Autukhovich said that he was provoked to violate the prison regulations.
23.12.2013 Uladzimir Yaromenak to serve sentence in Baranavichy
Uladzimir Yaromenak, activist of the Young Front youth opposition movement, will serve his sentence in a detention house in Baranavichy (Brest region). His wife was told about this at the Department of Corrections of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, the Young Front’s website reports.
