News on the topic: political prisoners
15.05.2013 Mikalai Autukhovich cannot eat well
According to the head of the public association "Legal Assistance to Population" Aleh Volhak, the political prisoner cannot eat properly due to problems with his teeth.
06.05.2013 Pavel Seviarynets given three days to visit his home
The co-head of the Belarusian Christian Democracy party, political prisoner Pavel Seviarynets was given three days off to spend the Easter in Vitsebsk.
03.05.2013 "Zmena" activists hang out streamer "Freedom to Political Prisoners" in Kastrychnitskaya Square
On Saturday, 4 May, an activist of "Zmena" (the youth wing of "Tell The Truth") Pavel Vinahradau is to be released after serving an arrest term.
03.05.2013 Syarhey Kavalenka gets the second warning for the week
Vitsebsk activist of the Conservative-Christian Party "Belarusian Popular Front" Siarhei Kavalenka was summonsed to Pershamaiski District Inspection in Vitsebsk and issued with the second warning for the week.
01.05.2013 Bialynichy activist send congratulations to political prisoners (photos)
Greetings on the International Labor Day and the upcoming Orthodox Easter and the Victory Day have been sent to the Belarusian political prisoners by civil activists of Bialynichy area.
23.04.2013 Alienievich sent to penal cell for 20 days
The political prisoner wrote about that in a letter to his mother Valancina Alienievich.
22.04.2013 KGB refuses to return belongings of political prisoner Dziadok to his family
Relatives of Mikalai Dziadok cannot receive his computer back. The wife of the political prisoner, Valeria Khotsina, told it Radio Svaboda.
22.04.2013 Political prisoners’ wives meet Poland’s First Lady
Hanna Komorowska, the wife of Polish President Bronislaw Komorowski, expressed her solidarity with Belarusian political prisoners by meeting with the wives of three of them, Maryna Adamovich, Nasta Dashkevich and Natallia Pinchuk, at the Belweder Palace in Warsaw.
16.04.2013 Valiantsin Stefanovich: “Brussels has no illusions in its assessment of the regime”
Such a conclusion was made by the deputy chairman of the Human Rights Center “Viasna” as a result of his recent visit to the capital of the European Union to participate in a conference on the dialogue on the modernization of Belarus and have a number of meetings.
15.04.2013 Relatives receive no letters from Ihar Alinevich after publication of his book
In March the book by the Belarusian political prisoner Ihar Alinevich "Going to Magadan" ("Yedu v Magadan") was published in Russia.
15.04.2013 Mikalai Autukhovich says he may sue investigator Alikhver
The political prisoner confirmed that the person whose photos were published in the press and social networks was the investigator who had brought the first criminal case against him.
04.04.2013 Vasil Parfiankou fined for violation of the regime of preventive supervision
Vasil Parfiankou has been charged with a violation of the regime of preventive supervision for the first time since the release from the detention facility on 9 February. On 4 April Yury Harbatouski, Judge of Pershamaiski District Court of Minsk, fined him 800,000 rubles.
04.04.2013 Yauhen Vaskovich: "I will bear my cross until the end"
We learned some details about the prison conditions of a member of the Belarusian Christian Democracy, political prisoner Yauhen Vaskovich. He wrote about it in his letter to his grandmother Tamara, received by her on 29 March.
29.03.2013 Political prisoner Dzyadok thrown into punishment cell for 6 days
Mikalai Dzyadok met with his lawyer in prison in Mahilou on March 28. Radio Svaboda has learnt it from his father Alyaksandr Dzyadok.
28.03.2013 Natallya Pinchuk: Paleckis must show his hand
The situation of political prisoners does not and will scarcely change for the better. Natallya Pinchuk, the wife of political prisoner Ales Byalyatski, gave an interview to charter97.org.
