News on the topic: political prisoners
17.01.2012 Mikalai Autukhovich to serve rest of term in prison
Political prisoner Mikalai Autukhovich has stood closed trial at a penal colony in Ivatsevichy. As a result, he will be transferred to a stricter prison for alleged repeated violations of regime restrictions while serving his 5.2-year term.
16.01.2012 Mikola Statkevich is in Mahilyou prison
Mikola Statkevich, who was sentenced to 3 years in closed prison with a reinforced regime on January 12, 2012, is already in Nr 4 prison in Mahilyou.
13.01.2012 Vitsebsk: political prisoner Siarhei Kavalenka fined 140,000 rubles
The Pershamaiski District Court of Vitsebsk finished the proceedings on an administrative case against political prisoner Siarhei Kavalenka. Judge Volha Ivanova fined him for alleged swearing at officers of the penal inspection.
13.01.2012 Political prisoner Vaskovich put into penal cell again
Activist of the Belarusian Christian Democracy Yauhen Vaskovich got ten days in a punishment cell.
13.01.2012 Political prisoner Sannikau not allowed to meet with his lawyer again
The treatment of the political prisoner becomes more and more cruel.
13.01.2012 Brest: court finds nothing wrong with picket bans
The Brest Regional Court confirmed the ruling of the Leninski District Court of Brest concerning the ban of a series of pickets under the slogan “Freedom to Political Prisoners!” by the Brest City Executive Committee in autumn 2011.
13.01.2012 Activist of “United Russia” detained for action of solidarity with Kavalenka
Pyotr Ivanov, a citizen of the Russian Federation, was detained for handing out leaflets calling to support an imprisoned oppositionist from Vitsebsk in court.
13.01.2012 Political prisoner Autukhovich taken to medical unit
Mikalai Autukhovich has been taken to the prison medical unit for unknown reasons. Autukhovich is to stand trial on 17 January to change confinement conditions for him. The colony administration says he does not want to mend his way.
12.01.2012 Supreme Court started consideration of anarchists' appeals
The Supreme Court started the consideration of the appeals filed by Ihar Alinevich, Mikalai Dziadok and Aliaksandr Frantskevich, activists of anarchist movement who had been convicted for political reasons.
12.01.2012 Vitsebsk: Siarhei Kavalenka placed into isolation ward
As the mother of the political prisoner from Vitsebsk, Siarhei Kavalenka who is on a hunger strike for 24 days, has found out, he was placed in an isolation ward a week ago.
12.01.2012 Ex-political prisoner Yaromenak expelled from university
“Young Front” activist Uladzimir Yaromenak has learned about his expulsion from the university after serving 15-day arrest for an action of solidarity near the Read Church on 19 December. The guy received a telephone call from the university and was told he could take back his documents.
12.01.2012 Court transfers political prisoner Statkevich to prison for three years
On 12 January the former presidential candidate stood trial in a penal colony in Shklou.
11.01.2012 Procuracy conceals systemic ill-treatment of political prisoner Autukhovich
The Brest Region Procuracy refused to instigate a criminal case over ill-treatment of Mikalai Autukhovich. Investigators say “it was impossible” to reveal the facts of systematic ill-treatment of Autukhovich or encouraging him to commit suicide by the penal colony authorities.
09.01.2012 Penal colony doesn’t accept medicines for Statkevich
The wife of the political prisoner visited the penitentiary in Shklou on 9 January.
09.01.2012 Ex-political prisoner Ales Kirkevich is required to pay fine for electoral meeting
On 6 January court marshals paid an unexpected visit to Ales's apartment. They demanded that he paid a fine to which he had been sentenced last year for holding an electoral meeting of Hrodna residents with presidential candidate Mikalai Statkevich. After the meeting Kirkevich and some more Hrodna activists had been sentenced to pay fines of 700,000 rubles for participation in “unauthorized rally”.
