News on the topic: political prisoners
09.01.2012 Pavel Seviarynets is banned to maintain correspondence with Yauhen Vaskovich
Co-chair of the steering committee of the Belarusian Christian Democracy Party Pavel Seviarynets, who is currently serving a personal restraint term, was banned to maintain mail correspondence with a BCD activist Yauhen Vaskovich, sentenced to 7 years of imprisonment for an attempt to set fire to the Babruisk KGB office in the night of 16-17 October 2010.
09.01.2012 Ex-political prisoner Siarhei Kazakou summonsed to surveillance inspection
Former political prisoner Siarhei Kazakou received a summons obliging him to appear for a conversation with an inspector at 10 am on the address Rokossovski Str 38a.
05.01.2012 KGB doesn’t return passport to Dashkevich
On 4 January Anastasia Palazhanka filed a complaint to the General Prosecutor’s Office in connection with the refusal of KGB to return the passport to her fiancé Zmitser Dashkevich.
05.01.2012 Political prisoner Vasil Parfiankou put under preventive surveillance
On 5 January Judge of the Pershamaiski district court of Minsk Siarhei Bandarenka ordered to put Vasil Parfiankou under preventive surveillance for 12 months because the political prisoner “does not mend his way”.
05.01.2012 Political prisoner Mikalai Statkevich to be transferred to stricter security prison for 3 years
The political prisoner “does not strive for freedom and intends to continue his criminal activity”, the penal colony administration thinks.
04.01.2012 Pavel Vinahradau sentenced to 7 days of arrest
Judge of the Maskouski District Court Aliaksandr Kostrykau found former political prisoner, activist of the civil campaign “Tell The Truth!” Pavel Vinahradau guilty of committing an administrative offence under Article 17.1 of the Administrative Code of Belarus, BelaPAN news agency reports.
04.01.2012 “Young Front” activist Ales Kirkevich issued with a warning
He signed for the first warning for public order violation there. It was connected with Kirkevich's detention in September 2011. Let us remind you, he disseminated leaflets with the information about the 21 September silent protest action then.
27.12.2011 Supreme Court dismisses Bandarenka’s appeal
The reply from the Supreme Court is dated December 23, when Lukashenka said at a press conference he did not plan to free political prisoners.
23.12.2011 Lukashenka says that he will order release of Sannikaw, Statkevich, Bandarenka after they ask him for pardon
Alyaksandr Lukashenka said Friday that he would order the release of former presidential candidates Andrey Sannikaw and Mikalay Statkevich, as well as Mr. Sannikaw’s campaign aide Dzmitry Bandarenka only after they asked him for a pardon.
23.12.2011 Czech NGOs bid Belarus to free political prisoners
Today's first appeal was the morning solidarity event in front of Embassy of Belarus in Prague, calling for freeing Ales Bialiatski and other Belarusian political prisoners. This was followed by simulated arrests of students at the Charles University and by a flashmob in the centre of Prague. The event taking place on the anniversary of Belarusian presidential election was organized by the NGOs People in Need, NESEHNUTI, Amnesty International CR and Civic Belarus, in cooperation with the Belarusian community in Prague.
22.12.2011 Book about victims of post-election crackdown published in Minsk
A book-launch event for journalist Alyaksandr Tamkovich's Suprats Plyni (Against the Flow), which describes the fates of 18 victims of the post-election crackdown on government opponents in Belarus, was held in the office of the Belarusian Popular Front in Minsk on December 21.
19.12.2011 USA and EU call on Belarus to release political prisoners
It is said in the joint statement of U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and European Union's High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Catherine Ashton.
16.12.2011 Text message from colony: Mikalaj Autukhovich slashes his wrists
Radio Liberty's correspondent received a text message from Ivatsevichy colony No. 5 that the political prisoner had attempted to commit suicide.
15.12.2011 Poznan students hold action in support of political prisoners in Belarus
An action of support to Belarusians who are kept in jail because of their political views was held on 14 December in Poznan (Poland). At the beginning of the action the names of the political prisoners were read out and 12 torches were lit. The organizers of the action reminded about the importance of the solidarity of Poles with the Belarusians who are persecuted for their oppositional activities.
14.12.2011 Vitsebsk: Siarhei Kavalenka pressurized by penal inspection
Siarhei Kavalenka, a member of the Conservative-Christian Party Belarusian Popular Front punished with conditional imprisonment for hanging out a white-red-white flag on the main New Year tree of Vitsebsk, filed a number of appeals with the city procuracy. He complains about the restriction of his legal rights to work, rest and use the Belarusian language.
