News on the topic: political prisoners
09.01.2013 Pavel Vinahradau: Venturesome Fighter (video)
Another film from the "Judgment Days Chronicle" has been published on the web. The documentary is dedicated to a victim of political repressions, the leader of the youth organization "Zmena" Pavel Vinahradau.
08.01.2013 Landmark UN decision: Ales Bialiatski’s detention arbitrary, release and compensation requested
Paris-Geneva, December 21, 2012. At its 64th session, the United Nations (UN) Working Group on Arbitrary Detention (WGAD) adopted decision A/HRC/WGAD/2012/39, published on November 23, in which it found that the detention of Mr. Ales Bialiatski, President of the Human Rights Centre (HRC) “Viasna” and FIDH Vice-President, was arbitrary.
08.01.2013 "BelSat" calls on people to send postcards to politial prisoners
The TV channel created some trailers, at which TV hosts and journalists are signing postcards for the civil and political activists who are kept behind bars.
08.01.2013 Film about Ales Bialiatski and "Viasna" activities issued at "BelSat" TV channel
The central characters of the documentary are the head of the HRC "Viasna", his wife Natallia Pinchuk and the teacher Natallia Ilyinich, who was dismissed from work for political reasons, and whom the human rights defenders assisted in the protection of her rights.
07.01.2013 Human rights defenders think the accused of "high treason", Andrei Haidukou, may be tortured
Such suspicion arises from the repeated non-admission of the counsel to the pre-trial prison of the KGB, where the Navapolatsk democratic activist Andrei Haidukou is currently kept. Human rights defenders submitted an appropriate complaint to the UN Special Rapporteur on this occasion.
06.01.2013 Congratulate Mikalai Autukhovich: the political prisoner celebrates his 50-year jubilee on 7 January
Mikalai Autukhovich is a veteran of the war in Afghanistan, successful entrepreneur and democratic activist from Vaukavysk, imprisoned for his anti-corruption activities.
03.01.2013 Political prisoner Ihar Alinevich phoned home several hours before the New Year
The activist of the anarchist movement Ihar Alinevich managed to phone home and congratulate his relatives on the New Year literally several hours before the advent of 2013.
03.01.2013 Mikalai Autukhovich does not count on parole
On the New Year's Eve the political prisoner Mikalai Autukhovich sent a letter to his friend, human rights defender Aleh Vouchak, who had also served in Afghanistan during the Soviet rule.
03.01.2013 Political prisoner Vasil Parfiankou not allowed to phone home even once
Starting from August 2012, when Vasil Parfiankou was put in the Baranavichy detention facility, he has not never been allowed to phone home.
29.12.2012 Ales Bialiatski: "This international support is a message to all Belarusians"
The fact that the political prisoner remains in Babruisk-based penal colony is confirmed by the letters he continues sending – of 18th, 20th, 24th December. Ales says that almost all of his free time is occupied by letters. Letters and postcards with words of support coming in large numbers – sometimes more than a hundred of them comes in just a day.
27.12.2012 Young Front leaders Zmitser Dashkevich and Nasta Palazhanka get married in prison
Zmitser Dashkevich and Anastasiya (Nasta) Palazhanka, leaders of an opposition youth group called Malady Front, got married in Prison No. 1 in Hrodna on December 26.
27.12.2012 “Three Poems by Politician Niakliayeu” (video)
A new film in a series "The Chronicle of Judgment Time" has appeared on the Internet. The video tells the story of the repressed leader of the campaign "Tell the Truth", poet Uladzimir Niakliayeu.
26.12.2012 Vasil Parfiankou appeals parole denial
An appeal has been submitted on behalf of political prisoner Vasil Parfiankou to challenge a decision to deny his early release request reportedly taken on 13 December at the Baranavichy-based arrest house No. 6.
26.12.2012 Political prisoner Aliaksandr Frantskevich in solitary confinement for third time this year
Tatsiana Frantskevich, mother of the imprisoned anarchist, is going to Ivatsevichy colony together with a lawyer to learn about her son’s health. Aliaksandr Frantskevich has only one kidney, and his mother is afraid that being held in a punishment cell could harm his physical condition.
25.12.2012 Vasil Parfiankou: "In Search of Freedom" (video)
A new film in the series "The Chronicle of Judgment Time" appeared on the Internet. The video entitled "In Search of Freedom" is dedicated to political prisoner Vasil Parfiankou, who is currently serving a sentence in the Western city of Baranavichy.
