News on the topic: political prisoners
06.12.2012 Dublin: HR activists remind about Ales Bialiatski
On 6 December activists of the human rights organization Front-Line Defenders held a picket in support of human rights defenders, dated to the opening of a session of the OSCE Council of Ministers.
06.12.2012 Pavel Sapelka: “The award belongs to those, who struggled beside me, upholding the understanding of the freedom and independence of legal profession”
These days, human rights lawyer Pavel Sapelka has been presented the prestigious Human Rights Award 2012, awarded to him by the Council of Bars and Law Societies of Europe (CCBE). CCBE unites about 1 million of European lawyers of Bars and Law Societies.
05.12.2012 Pavel Sapelka: Mikalai Dziadok is being put in unbearable conditions
The famous Belarusian lawyer does not believe the political prisoner is a persistent violator of prison rules.
04.12.2012 Books not accepted for political prisoner Vasil Parfiankou
The civil activist Ryhor Hryk collected about 40 books by Belarusian and foreign writers. On 3 December he tried to pass them to the pre-trial prison #6 in Baranavichy, where the political prisoner Vasil Parfiankou is kept.
04.12.2012 Political prisoner Mikalai Dziadok sent to a cell-type prison facility
The court decided to toughen the imprisonment conditions for the political prisoner.
03.12.2012 They burn Dashkevich's letters to warm up
The Vitsebsk coordinator of the organizational committee of the BChD party Tatsiana Seviarynets received a letter from Dzmitry Dashkevich from the Hrodna prison No 1. In the letter it is explained why the previous letter did not make it to Tatsiana, RFE/RL reports.
30.11.2012 Website about political prisoners and their persecutors presented in Minsk
On 29 November another human rights initiative, the informational resource about the political prisoners of Belarus starting from 1989 – palitviazni.info – was presented in Belarus.
30.11.2012 Former political prisoner Uladzimir Yaromenak questioned over attack on the Lithuanian Embassy
Uladzimir Yaromenak was forcefully taken to the Partyzanski District Police Department to give explanations regarding the incident.
30.11.2012 Hillary Clinton calls on the Belarusian authorities to release political prisoners
The United States Secretary of State criticized the authorities in Ukraine and Belarus and welcomed the elections in Georgia. Her speech at the Brookings Institution on Thursday was devoted to relations between the US and Europe, RIA “Novosti” reports.
30.11.2012 Political prisoner Statkevich doesn't receive books
The political prisoner wrote it in a letter to his wife. He writes he knows that his friends made numerous attempts to send books to him. Unfortunately, he cannot receive them. He asks to send them to his wife so that she could keep them as a sign of solidarity, statkevich.org infroms. Mikalai Statekvich wrote about physical health and an opportunity to see the sun.
29.11.2012 Political prisoner Aliaksandr Frantskevich put into penal cell
This information was received from his mother, Tatsiana Frantskevich. She knows neither what he has been punished for nor for what term he has been put in the penal cell.
28.11.2012 Belarusian paratrooper Eduard Lobau (video)
A mini-film dedicated to the political prisoner and member of the “Young Front” Eduard Lobau appeared on the web.
28.11.2012 BCD activist Siarhei Malashonak intends to hold a rally in support of political prisoners in Navapolatsk
Siarhei Malashonak, an activist of the organizing committee of the party Belarusian Christian Democracy, applied to the Navapolatsk City Executive Committee for the authorization of a street action in support of political prisoners in Belarus.
20.11.2012 Some 30 people demonstrate in Warsaw to demand freedom for Dashkevich, Statkevich
Some 30 people staged a demonstration in Warsaw on November 18 to demand the release of Belarusian political prisoners Zmitser Dashkevich and Mikalay Statkevich.
19.11.2012 “Freedom! Equality! Fraternity!” Mini-Documentary About Political Prisoner Mikalaj Dziadok
Mikalaj Dziadok is an anarchist. One of the reasons for his prosecution was a peaceful anti-military rally near the headquarters of the Ministry of Defence.
