News on the topic: political prisoners
09.08.2012 Political prisoner Vasil Parfiankou transferred to arrest house
Vasil Parfiankou, sentenced to a prison term for the post-election protests, but released in August 2011, has been thrown behind bars again.
06.08.2012 Siarhei Skrabets withdraws from election because of KGB threats
The politician received threats he would go to jail again and his and his relatives' property would be seized.
06.08.2012 Political prisoner Aliaksandr Frantskevich put into penal cell for 10 days
The political prisoner refused to fulfill an order of the penal colony authorities.
06.08.2012 Political prisoner Mikalai Statkevich doesn't get enough food
The political prisoner demands the prison authorities to fulfill the prison food regulations. Mikalai Statkevich sent a letter to his wife Maryna Adamovich. Maryna also talked to him on the phone. According to her, the political prisoner thanks all activists, who joined the initiative groups to propose Statkevich as a candidate. Maryna Adamovich says Mikalai Statkevich received a part of copies of decisions of election commissions, which refused to register the former presidential candidate. “Mikalai noted the decisions have the same text,” Maryna Adamovich says. She learned from a letter about her husband's long struggle for observing the nutrition guidelines for inmates. He found out these regulations were being violated, RFE/RL reports.
03.08.2012 Belarusian human rights defenders pass petition for release of Ales Bialiatski and all political prisoners to Presidential Administration
Representatives of democratic NGOs, civil activists and human rights defenders of Belarus paid a visit to the Presidential Administration to pass the petition demanding an immediate and unconditional release of Ales Bialiatski and all political prisoners and cessation of pressurization on human rights and civil society organizations of the country.
03.08.2012 Barysau authorities ban picket in support of Ales Bialiatski
The Barysau District Executive Committee prohibited the local human rights defenders to hold a picket under the slogan “Freedom to Ales Bialiatski!” near one of large departments store of Barysau on 4 August.
03.08.2012 Observatory for the Protection of Human Rights Defenders: BELARUS:
First year of imprisonment for Ales Bialiatski, a sad illustration of the ongoing repression of the Belarusian civil society
03.08.2012 Still behind bars: The plight of long-term prisoners in Belarus
One year ago on 4 August, prominent human rights defender Ales Bialiatski was arrested in Minsk, the capital of Belarus. He was sentenced to four and a half years for tax evasion charges. Amnesty International considers that he has been sentenced for carrying out his human rights activities and has declared him a prisoner of conscience.
01.08.2012 Seriously ill Viachaslau Dashkevich fears he won't live long enough to see his son released from jail
Last week Viachaslau Dashkevich, a journalist and chief-editor with a long labor record, was visited by members of the Belarusian Association of Journalists.
01.08.2012 Website palitviazni.info now available in foreign languages
Now the website about Belarusian political prisoners has English, Polish and Russian versions.
31.07.2012 Prison administration refuses to change Statkevich`s custody status to less restrictive
The administration of Mahilyow Prison No. 4 has rejected Mikalay Statekevich’s appeal to change his custody status to less restrictive, Maryna Adamovich, the wife of the 55-year-old former presidential candidate, told BelaPAN on Tuesday, referring to a recent letter from her husband.
30.07.2012 Pavel Sevyarynets released for three days
The convicted politician has been given a short leave.
29.07.2012 Baranavichy authorities ban picket in support of political prisoners
Baranavichy city executive committee has not authorized a picket of solidarity with Ales Bialiatski and other Belarusian political prisoners.
27.07.2012 Zhodzina authorities ban picket of solidarity with political prisoners
The authorities of the town of Zhodzina have banned a picket in support of Ales Bialiatski and other political prisoners scheduled for 4 August.
27.07.2012 Joint Statement of 15 international MPs on the situation in Belarus
27.07.2012 Polish MEP Marek Migalski, as a participant in Libereco-Partnership for Human Rights’ Prisoner’s Godparenthood Campaign, issued a statement on the situation in Belarus, which was supported by 14 other international members of parliament. Today, they expressed their support for the democratic aspirations of the people of Belarus and called upon Belarusian authorities to cease the persecution of dissidents, human rights defenders and journalists in Belarus and to release and exonerate all political prisoners immediately and unconditionally.
