17.07.2012 Political prisoner Mikola Statkevich to run for MP

Mikola Statkevich's initiative groups are being registered in Vitsebsk Province.

16.07.2012 Navapolatsk activist warned over banner “Freedom to Statkevich!”

Navapolatsk activist Yauhen Parchynski has been summoned to local police department to receive an official warning for holding an unsanctioned picket of support to imprisoned Mikalai Statkevich.

16.07.2012 Imprisoned Syarhey Kavalenka granted four-day meeting with family

Imprisoned Syarhey Kavalenka has been granted a four-day meeting with the family in Correctional Institution No. 19 in Mahilyow, the wife of the 37-year-old opposition activist told BelaPAN on Monday.

16.07.2012 Alinevich thrown into punishment cell for two weeks

Anarchist Ihar Alinevich “is inclined to violent behaviour and is likely to escape”, the administration of the penal colony in Navapolatsk thinks.

Ihar said it to his mother Valyantina Alinevich in a phone conversation on July 14. It was his third telephone call in the last 12 months.

13.07.2012 Pickets for freedom of all Belarusian political prisoners (updated)

Members of the Human Rights Center “Viasna”, together with representatives of other civil organizations and parties file applications for pickets in support of the imprisoned head of the Human Rights Center “Viasna” Ales Bialiatski and other political prisoners all over Belarus.

13.07.2012 Political prisoner Mikalai Statkevich put into penal cell

Former presidential candidate has been kept in a disciplinary cell since 6 July, serving punishment for an offense.

12.07.2012 Minsk City Court considers Bialiatski's appeal against a new fine

On12 April the Minsk City Court considers the appeal of the imprisoned head of the Human Rights Center “Viasna” Ales Bialiatski against the verdict of the Pershamaiski District Court of Minsk according to which he was sentenced to pay 140 million rubles of fine for an untimely payment of taxes.

12.07.2012 Mikalai Autukhovich: “No one can intimidate me”

The politician writes cheerful letters, says he is ready to anything and is not going to change his views.

12.07.2012 Political prisoner Ihar Alinevich declared “malignant violator”

The activist of the anarchist movement, who is serving his sentence in the Navapolatsk colony, wrote it in a letter to his mother.

11.07.2012 Valiantsin Stefanovich: “Amnesty bill was politicized by the authorities”

The deputy head of the Human Rights Center “Viasna” told why there was no use waiting for the release of political prisoners under the recently adopted law on amnesty and pointed that the authorities artificially deprived the imprisoned opponents of the regime to be released on parole.

11.07.2012 Political prisoner Aliaksandr Malchanau appeals his sentence

A lawyer visited Aliaksandr Malchanau in a detention facility in Zhodzina on 9 July. She said the political prisoner would appeal against the judgement.

10.07.2012 Zmitser Dashkevich throws a challenge to the system

In response to the possible instigation of a new criminal case political prisoner Zmitser Dashkevich composed an appeal to the head of the penal colony, which he mockingly called “Acknowledgment of Guilt”.

10.07.2012 Pickets for freedom of all political prisoners

Today members of the Human Rights Center “Viasna”, together with representatives of other civil organizations and parties file applications for pickets in support of the imprisoned head of the Human Rights Center “Viasna” Ales Bialiatski and other political prisoners all over Belarus.

10.07.2012 Political prisoner Statkevich doesn't receive newspapers

This was reported to BelaPAN by the wife of the politician Maryna Adamovich.

09.07.2012 Brest authorities ban BCD rallies

Members of the steering committee of the Belarusian Christian Democracy filed applications for the authorization of two rallies in Brest: on 10 July – in support of political prisoner, BCD co-head Pavel Seviarynets, and on 14 – under the slogan “Freedom to political prisoners!”