News on the topic: political prisoners
16.11.2012 Political prisoner Vaskovich cannot receive books in prison
Yuheny Vaskovich wrote it in a letter to his grandmother.
16.11.2012 Zmitser Dashkevich placed in solitary confinement
A political prisoner had a meeting with his lawyer in a prison in Hrodna.
15.11.2012 Pavel Sevyarynets: Belarus has new political prisoner
The co-chairman of the organising committee to create Belarusian Christian Democracy party demands to release Andrei Haidukou.
15.11.2012 Maira Mora: Release of political prisoners is main demand
The head of the EU Delegation to Belarus reminded on what conditions the relations between official Minsk and the EU can be improved.
14.11.2012 Polish ambassador calls for release and exoneration of political prisoners
The demands of the European Union and Poland remain unchanged.
13.11.2012 Dzmitry Dashkevich had a meeting with the lawyer
On 9 November Dzmitry Dashkevich, the leader of the international organization Young Front (Czech Republic), who is now in the Grodna prison No 1, met his lawyer.
09.11.2012 Former political prisoner Siarhei Kazakou gets detained
Siarhei Kazakou, a former political prisoner and activist of the “European Belarus” civil campaign, was detained in the evening of 8 November at the central railway station in Minsk.
05.11.2012 Political prisoner Mikalai Statkevich gets completely isolated
The prison administration doesn't allow the prisoner to meet with a priest, he does not receive letters and parcels. Mikalai Statkevich told about the refusal of the administration to allow the meeting already a month ago, during the visit of the apostolic nuncio Claudio Gugerotti. The prison administration another time promised to bring a priest to the political prisoner. However, in the letter written a month after the meeting with the nuncio, Statkevich says he still had no meeting with a priest – the prison administration said the priest was away on a mission.
02.11.2012 Detention conditions of civil activist Zmitser Dashkevich get worse
Paris-Minsk, 1 November 2012 - FIDH and its member organisation in Belarus, Human Rights Center “Viasna”, condemn Tuesday’s Mozyr District Court decision imposing punitive incarceration on Zmitser Dashkevich, leader of the civil and political organization Young Front, for the entire duration of his sentence.
31.10.2012 Do Not Kill All Human in Person — Zmicier Dashkievich’s Open Letter to Prosecutor General’s Office
The main law of our country — the Constitution of the Republic of Belarus in its Article No. 25 says that no one shall be subjected to torture or cruel, inhuman or undignified treatment or punishment, which violate personal liberty, inviolability and dignity.
30.10.2012 Dashkevich sent to supermax prison for rest of his sentence
The court of Mozyr held the trial in the penal colony to hear political prisoner's case.
29.10.2012 Medical and clothing parcels allowed for Dziadok
Now the political prisoner will be able to receive medicine and warm clothes for winter.
29.10.2012 Political prisoner Vaskovich gets another warning
Yauheny Vaskovich, who spent seven days in a punishment cell in early October, received another warning from the disciplinary commission of the penal colony in Mahilou. He wasn't however sent to a punishment cell, BelaPAN news agency reports.
29.10.2012 Letters to Mikalai Statkevich blocked
According to Leanid Haravy, activist of the For Freedom opposition movement, his letter to political prisoner Mikalai Statkevich did not reach the penal colony. The activist received a postcard saying that the “letter did not pass censorship”, instead.
29.10.2012 Zmitser Dashkevich to stand new trial tomorrow
The court of Mozyr is expected to arrive in penal colony on October 30 to hold trial against a political prisoner. The Young Front leader may receive a more severe sentence, Belsat TV reports.
