News on the topic: political prisoners
26.11.2013 Volha Haidukova: Andrei jailed for nothing, it's most painful thing
The mother of political prisoner Andrei Haidukou hopes her son will be granted early release.
25.11.2013 Inmates of Mahiliou prison unable to subscribe to newspapers
Mrs. Taisia Kabanchuk, leader of the Babruisk office of the Belarusian Christian Democracy party, says that her friend received back her letter with a check for the subscription sent to Mahiliou prison No. 4.
25.11.2013 Activist trying to protect Statkevich from censorship
Leanid Haravy, member of the Belarusian Social Democratic Party (Hramada) and an activist of the Movement "For Freedom" from the town of Haradok, wrote a complaint against the administration prison No. 4 in Mahiliou concerning its attempts to restrict Mikalai Statkevich’s rights to correspondence.
20.11.2013 Mikalay Authukhovich was not allowed to meet with his mother
Mikalay Autukhovich’s meeting with relatives was scheduled for November.
19.11.2013 Angela Merkel demands release of Belarusian political prisoners
Political prisoners in Belarus should obtain the possibility to speak and act freely. Angela Merkel spoke of that to Bundestag members, Radio Svaboda reports.
18.11.2013 Mikalai Authukhovich deprived of meeting with mother
The meeting with relatives was scheduled for November.
14.11.2013 Viasna supports guidelines aimed to define “political prisoner”
A guideline aimed to define the notion of “political prisoner” was presented at the Third Human Rights Forum held in Vilnius in late October.
14.11.2013 Hrodna resident Vadzim Tsiarletski sentenced to three days of arrest
On 13 November the Kastrychnitski District Cour of Minsk considered the administrative case of Vadzim Tsiarletski, detained at the central railway station of Minsk on 12 November.
12.11.2013 Uladzimir Yaromenak to serve three-month arrest
It took the board of judges of the Minsk City Court just seven minutes to consider Uladzimir Yaromenak's appeal against the verdict of the Pershamaiski District Court of Minsk, by which he was sentenced to three months of arrest.
12.11.2013 Ales Bialiatski earns about $2 a month working six days a week
Ales Bialiatski earns about 20,000 rubles, and can spend just about 130,000 rubles in the prison shop.
11.11.2013 Dzmitry Dashkevich complains about the conditions in the center for the isolation of offenders in Akrestsin Street
On 11 November the co-chairman of the “Young Front" Dzmitry Dashkevich complained to the prosecutor of Minsk. Dashkevich asks to check whether the conditions of detention comply with the standards in the Center for isolation of offenders in Akrestsin Street.
07.11.2013 Ales Bialiatski has served a half of his sentence
The political prisoner, head of the Human Rights Center “Viasna” Ales Bialiatski has served a half of the term of imprisonment. He mentioned this date in his letter to his wife, Natallia Pinchuk.
06.11.2013 Zmitser Dashkevich sentenced to three days of arrest
“Young Front” members have been gathering signatures for renaming Lenin Street to Frantsyskanskaya Street (the historical name) near the central department store for the third day already.
31.10.2013 Political prisoner Andrei Haidukou visited by family
Volha Haidukova, the mother of political prisoner Andrei Haidukou, visited her son during a long-term meeting at colony No. 19 in Mahiliou, Radio Racyja reports.
30.10.2013 Restrictions on Dzmitry Miadvedz’s freedom expire today
Dzmitry Miadvedz, one of the defendants of the “rioting” case of 2010, is not involved in politics, nor is he related to political parties and movements, palitviazni.info reports.
