News on the topic: detention conditions
31.01.2011 Vaznyak describes conditions in KGB jail as 'very harsh'
Siarhei Vaznyak, editor-in-chief of Tavarysh (Comrad) newspaper and a member of Central Committee of Belarusian Leftist Party "Fair World", has described as 'very harsh' the conditions in the KGB pre-trial detention center. Vaznyak was a campaign worker for candidate Uladzimir Nyaklyaeu during the 2010 presidential campaign.
25.11.2010 Viasna’s statement on detention conditions of businessman Bandarenka
Member of the National Committee of the United Civic Party, candidate for Parliament during the 2008 election Andrei Bandarenka is serving a sentence in Babruisk penal colony, where he has been repeatedly subject to harassment by the colony’s administration, including repeated ungrounded incarceration, disciplinary sanctions, refusals of medical aid.
09.09.2010 New circumstances of Cameroonian Football Player Guy Toukam’s case
Several weeks ago 28-year-old Guy François Toukam who had been detained in Belarus for 44 days on accusation in forgery of the passport received an answer from Belarusian officials, from which it follows that he had allegedly refused from services of a counsel, that he had been provided with a interpreter from the very beginning and he hag even confessed that his passport had been forged!
24.08.2010 Food parcels for civil detainees: Necessity or luxury?
The issue of receiving food parcels by civil convicts is beyond the mainstream of public consciousness, says human rights activist Siarhei Ustsinau, quoting Stanislau Daniliuk, judge of the Constitutional Court of Belarus.
09.08.2010 Political prisoner Autukhovich denied treatment in prison
Pavel Sapelka, a lawyer, informed that because of the prison administration one more attempt to visit a dentist Mikalai Autukhovich failed.
03.08.2010 Norwegian footsal federation indignant at cruel detention conditions of Toukam
Kurt Hartvetd, chair of Norwegian footsal club association IFS, addressed the Human Rights Center ‘Viasna’ with a letter, expressing his indignation at the severe detention conditions of goalkeeper Guy Francois Toukam. The footsal official says the Belarusian authorities should provide explanations for the 40-day detention of the goalkeeper.
28.06.2010 In Support of Autukhovich
The Committee for the Protection of the Repressed ‘Salidarnasts’ and the Human Rights Center ‘Viasna’ submitted an urgent appeal to the UN Special Rapporteur on Torture, drawing attention to the detention conditions of the political prisoner Mikalai Autukhovich.
24.06.2010 Court fails to consider appeal against poor detention conditions
Brest Regional Court refused to consider an appeal against poor detention conditions at Brest pre-trial prison lodged by a ‘For Freedom’ activist Ivan Stasiuk, claiming that the regulation of prison conditions is within the authority of the Interior Ministry and cannot be questioned by courts, Aliaksandr Milinkevich’s press-service reports.
23.06.2010 Prosecutor General dissatisfied with detention conditions
The Belarusian General Prosecutor’s Office has made a representation concerning detention conditions in the country’s penal colonies and pre-trial facilities, the Nasha Niva independent newspaper reports, quoting Prosecutor General Ryhor Vasilevich.
