News on the topic: political prisoners
10.07.2013 Criminal case of Iryna Khalip passed to court
The criminal-executive inspection of the Partyzanski District Police Department passed to court the materials of the criminal case against Iryna Khalip. The deferrment of the sentence Mrs. Khalip ends on 21 July, that's why the trial cannot start later than this date.
10.07.2013 Political prisoner Mikalai Dziadok spent ten days in penal cell
The political prisoner was kept in a penal cell for ten days. He was put there in the first half of June for unknown reasons.
09.07.2013 Political prisoner Zmitser Dashkevich: "Whatever hard and hopeless it can be, but our time is coming, and their time is going"
Mr. Dashkevich hopes to get released next month, after the end of the additional one-year prison term for "malignant insubordination to the administration of the penitentiary". He wrote about it in a letter to the Bialynichy journalist Barys Vyrvich, received by him on 9 July.
09.07.2013 Andrei Haidukou's counsel appealed the verdict
As the journalists informed by Andrei's mother, Volha Haidukova, the lawyer Vadzim Mushynski appealed the verdict at the Supreme Court of Belarus.
05.07.2013 Frantskevich to be placed under police supervision after his release
Political prisoner Aliaksandr Frantskevich will be placed under police supervision after his release from jail.
04.07.2013 Mikalai Statkevich visited by wife
On July 2 political prisoner Mikalai Statkevich was visited by his wife in Mahiliou prison No. 4, Radio Racyja reports.
02.07.2013 Natalia Radina: The health and lives of political prisoners are in serious danger
It has been said quite a lot today about the necessity to release political prisoners in Belarus, but public opinion almost never talks about the conditions in which prisoners of conscience are forced to live in. Editor-in-chief of Charter-97 website, Natalia Radina, spent many months in the KGB detention center. Charter-97 often informs about cases of torture of political prisoners. Natalia Radina told Palitviazni.info more about the issue.
02.07.2013 PACE calls for release of political prisoners
A resolution on Belarus has been adopted at a session of the OSCE’s Parliamentary Assembly in Istanbul.
01.07.2013 Statement by the Human Rights Center "Viasna" and the Belarusian Helsinki Committee on sentencing of Andrei Haidukou
On July 1, 2013, Andrei Haidukou was convicted under paragraph 1, Article 14 and Article 356-1 of the Criminal Code (attempt to establish cooperation with the special service, security or intelligence services of a foreign state) and sentenced to 1.5 years in prison.
28.06.2013 Mother of political prisoner Ihar Alinevich loses job
Mrs. Valiantsina Alinevich, the mother of political prisoner Ihar Alinevich, has worked at the Belarusian State Economic University for over 30 years. The administration said that she was a high-level expert, but security forces insisted that her employment contract should be terminated.
28.06.2013 Jacek Protasiewicz: The European Union hopes for the release of political prisoners
Vice-President of the European Parliament, Jacek Protasiewicz expressed confidence that now it is a time for the Belarusian officials to take steps necessary for the improvement of relations between the EU and Minsk. Above all, Belarusian authorities should free political prisoners. Minsk does not have time to spare to do that. The politician told to Palitviazni.info about the EU expectations.
28.06.2013 Political prisoner Alinevich tears letters that offer to ask for pardon
Ihar Alinevich's parents had a long-term meeting with their son in the Navapolatsk penal colony No.10.
25.06.2013 Eduard Lobau: Summer began, but prison diet lacks fruits and vegetables
Young Front activist Eduard Lobau who serves his sentence in a penal colony, was visited by his mother – Maryna Lobava.
25.06.2013 Berlin activists campaign for release of Belarusian political prisoners, abolition of death penalty
Activists of Amnesty International’s Berlin office arranged the screening of the first full-length movie about the December 19, 2010 events entitled “A Belarusian Dream.”
21.06.2013 Hannes Swoboda: Compromise is inadmissible in the issue of the release of political prisoners
Steps towards the Belarusian authorities may only be taken after the release of all political prisoners in Belarus.
