News on the topic: political prisoners
19.09.2013 Mikalai Autukhovich cuts abdomen to protest harassment
Mikalai Autukhovich inflicted a serious bodily injury on himself, the Platform human rights NGO reports, quoting a confidential source in the Hrodna-based prison No. 1. According to the source, Autukhovich cut his abdomen with a razor blade in protest against the ongoing harassment from the prison authorities.
18.09.2013 Prison authorities keep harassing Mikalai Autukhovich
Mikalai Autukhovich learned on September 4 that prison supervisors charged him with violation of the internal regulations of the correctional institution, just one month ahead of the expected lifting of all penalties from him. Meanwhile, the political prisoner says he strictly observes the prison rules.
18.09.2013 European Parliament announced Sakharov prize nominees
Members of the European Parliament announced seven candidates for the Sakharov prize at a joint session of the Parliament’s foreign affairs committee and the human rights sub-committee.
17.09.2013 Lithuania’s MFA: Release of political prisoners is paramount
Lithuania hopes for improvement of EU-Belarus relations.
16.09.2013 Human Rights Defenders Discuss Violations of Human Rights in Belarus with Dutch Officials
The International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH) and the Netherlands Helsinki Committee (NHC) invited a delegation of Belarusian and Russian human rights defenders to raise issues regarding the systematic violation of human rights in Belarus with Dutch officials.
13.09.2013 European Parliament nominates Bialiatski, Lobau and Statkevich for Sakharov prize
40 European MPs signed for the nomination of the Belarusian political prisoners for this prestigeous prize.
06.09.2013 Political prisoner Mikalai Autukhovich calls on human rights activists to deal with investigator Alikhver's case
Mr. Autukhovich encourages human rights organizations to initiate proceedings against the investigator on his first case, Mikalai Alikhver, who now lives in the U.S..
05.09.2013 Andrei Haidukou got transferred to Mahiliou penal colony
Andrei Haidukou, a 23-year-old social activist, worker of the Navapolatsk oil-processing plant “Naftan”, punished with 1.5 years of imprisonment, has been transferred from the Vitsebsk remand prison to the Mahiliou penal colony No. 19.
03.09.2013 Police to deal with the journalist of “Sovetskaya Belorussiya” who published Haidukou's letters
The Savetski District Prosecutor's Office of Minsk filed to the police an appeal of the “Center of Legal Information” concerning the disclosure of the secret of investigation by a journalist of “Sovetskaya Belorussiya”.
03.09.2013 Political prisoner Aliaksandr Frantskevich released from jail
At 5.30 a.m. on 3 September the political prisoner Aliaksandr Frantskevich was released from the Ivatsevichy colony.
02.09.2013 Illia Dabratvor to be tried for white-red-white flag
On 30 August in Minsk the police detained the entrepreneur Illia Dabratvor.
30.08.2013 Postcards for political prisoners fail to reach destination
The Office of the MEP Marek Migalski received back the parcel it had sent to Belarusian political prisoners. The parcel had a label “Forbidden" on it. It contains over a hundred postcards with words of support for political prisoners Mikalai Statkevich and Dzmitry Dashkevich, Radio Racyja reports.
29.08.2013 Zmitser Dashkevich: “I will continue my socio-political activities”
Zmitser Dashkevich was arrested together with his colleague Eduard Lobau the day before the peaceful post-election protests, on 18 December, in a court yard in Panamarenka Street in Minsk. They were charged with beating two passers-by. However, nobody could see these people at the trial – they hid in a room and gave their testimonies through closed doors.
29.08.2013 Trial of political prisoner Aliaksandr Frantskevich to be held 30 August
The court sitting will be held at 2.30 p.m. on 30 August in Ivatsevichy colony where the political prisoner is serving his term. The court is to decide whether to establish a preventive supervision over him after his release from jail which is to take place 3 September.
28.08.2013 Political prisoner Zmitser Dashkevich got released from jail
The leader of the "Young Front" Zmitser Dashkevich was released from Hrodna prison today, on 28 August. It happened at half past six in the morning. The prisoner of conscience was met by dozens of people – friends, journalists and his wife – Anastasiya Dashkevich.
