News on the topic: political prisoners
03.10.2012 Amnesty International: Activist threatened with rape and torture
Activist and prisoner of conscience Zmitser Dashkevich is being threatened with rape and torture in a penal colony in Mazyr, south-west Belarus, where he was transferred after his sentence on 28 August for allegedly violating prison rules entered into force.
02.10.2012 Human Rights Watch: Stop intimidation of political prisoners
Belarusian authorities should immediately end all harassment and intimidation of the political prisoners Ales Bialiatski and Zmitser Dashkevich, Human Rights Watch said today. Belarus should order an immediate investigation of all instances of mistreatment of detainees held on politically motivated charges, which activists say has increased recently, Human Rights Watch said.
02.10.2012 Anatol Liabedzka accuses KGB of theft
The leader of the United Civil Party (UCP) has not still received back his money, diaries and information carriers seized during the latest presidential campaign.
27.09.2012 Political prisoner Dashkevich receives rape threats
“Young Front” reports about hideous facts of pressure on the political prisoner. Zmitser Dashkevich has been on hunger strike for the seventh day in a punishment cell of the Mazyr penal colony.
27.09.2012 Siarhei Kavalenka released from jail
The political prisoner was made to apply for a pardon after blackmailing, pressure and threats. Political prisoner Siarhei Kavalenka was released from a penal colony in Mahiliou in the evening of 26 September. Information about his release appeared this morning. Kavalenka was freed on the ground of an application for a presidential pardon.
20.09.2012 Political prisoner Zmitser Dashkevich transferred to Mazyr penal colony
The imprisoned leader of the Young Front opposition movement Zmitser Dashkevich has been escorted to penal colony No. 20 in the southern town of Mazyr (Homel region), says Nasta Palazhanka, the Young Front’s deputy chair and Dashkevich’s fiancée.
04.09.2012 Political prisoner Zmitser Dashkevich transferred from Hlybokaye to Vitsebsk
Political prisoner Zmitser Dashkevich, sentenced to another year of imprisonment for regular violation of the prison regime, was transferred to the Vitsebsk pre-trial prison in the night of 3-4 September. This information was distributed in the social networks by his fiancée Nasta Palazhanka.
03.09.2012 Brest: another picket ban left standing
The Brest City Executive Committee prohibited human rights defender Uladzimir Vialichkin, the head of the Brest regional organization of the United Civil Party Uladzimir Vuyek and the head of the Brest regional organization of the Belarusian Social Democratic Party (Hramada) Ihar Maslouski to hold a picket in support of the imprisoned head of the Human Rights Center “Viasna” Ales Bialiatksi and all other political prisoners in Belarus on 4 August.
31.08.2012 FIDH and “Viasna” condemn sentence imposed on Zmitser Dashkevich
FIDH and Viasna urge the Belarusian authorities to put an end to any kind of harassment against Mr. Dashkevich and to immediately and unconditionally release him, as well as all political prisoners in Belarus.
29.08.2012 Zmitser Dashkevich not to appeal court ruling
Zmitser Dashkevich does not plan to appeal the ruling by the Hlybokaye District Court that extended his prison term to August 28, 2013, BelaPAN said.
29.08.2012 Mother of political prisoner Aliaksandr Frantskevich forced to leave job
Mrs. Tatsiana Frantskevich, mother of political prisoner Aliaksandr Frantskevich serving his three-year sentence in a penal colony in Ivatsevichy, has been forced to leave her job as a cleaner at the Navapolatsk-based “Vadakanal” state-owned enterprise.
28.08.2012 Zmitser Dashkevich sentenced to one more year in prison
Zmitser Dashkevich, leader of the Young Front movement serving his two-year sentence in a penal colony in the town of Hlybokaye, Vitsebsk region, has been sentenced to one more year in jail on charges of violating prison regime.
28.08.2012 Smarhon court upholds ban on picket of solidarity with political prisoners
On 27 August, Judge Alina Kindra of Smarhon District Court dismissed a complaint by local human rights defender Ales Dzerhachou, who appealed a ban on holding a picket of solidarity with Belarusian political prisoners imposed by chairman of the district’s executive committee Mechyslau Hoi.
27.08.2012 Palitviazni.info presented in Warsaw
On August 24, the Belarusian House in Warsaw hosted a meeting on the situation of Belarusian political prisoners in the context of elections. During the event, the presentation of the site palitviazni.info was held by Dzmitry Salauyou and Aliaksei Trubkin of the Human Rights Centre "Viasna".
23.08.2012 Migalski demands information about Kavalenka's health
Polish member of the European Parliament Marek Migalski is concerns over the situation of political prisoner Syarhei Kavalenka, who serves his term in penal colony No. 19 in Mahilou.
