News on the topic: penitentiary system
05.12.2023 What happened to political prisoners between November 27 and December 5
Viasna provides a weekly overview of the latest news on political prisoners.
04.12.2023 "Healthcare in prison is a black mirror that each of us has looked into"
In Vilnius, on November 29, a public initiative Doctors for Truth and Justice held a conference on penitentiary medicine and psychology in Belarus.
29.11.2023 What happened to political prisoners between November 17 and 27
Viasna provides a weekly overview of the latest news on political prisoners.
20.11.2023 "Show everyone we have no connection with." We recall the political prisoners whom the authorities showed in prisons
In Belarus, a number of political prisoners are in complete isolation without communication with the outside world.
17.11.2023 What happened to political prisoners from November 9 to 17
Viasna provides a weekly overview of the latest news on political prisoners.
09.11.2023 What happened to political prisoners between November 2 and 9
Viasna provides a weekly overview of the latest news on political prisoners.
06.11.2023 49 political prisoners were released in October, 47 of them completing their sentence
Viasna recounts their cases and terms in the monthly digest.
03.11.2023 What happened to political prisoners between October 25 and November 2
Viasna provides a weekly overview of the latest news on political prisoners.
02.11.2023 Belarusians in "covered prisons": how political prisoners continue to be persecuted in penal colonies
Viasna reports how the administration of the colonies punishes political prisoners and which of the political prisoners are recognized as "malicious violators of the order."
26.10.2023 What happened to political prisoners between October 18 and 25
Viasna provides a weekly overview of the latest news on political prisoners.
23.10.2023 Employee of the Navapolack penal colony convicted of beating a prisoner
Viasna reports a rare case of punishment of a colony employee for violence against a prisoner.
18.10.2023 What happened to political prisoners between October 10 and 18
Viasna provides a weekly overview of the latest news on political prisoners.
16.10.2023 "There are no rules: they will do what they want." A former political prisoner spoke about the detention conditions in a punitive confinement cell where Vitold Ashurak died
The former political prisoner told Viasna about the conditions of detention in a punitive confinement cell in the Šklou colony, where he was kept alone for three weeks.
09.10.2023 Political prisoner Vasil Berasneu hospitalized, a kidney transplant needed
Berasneu's health situation is so critical that medical treatment does not make sense.
05.10.2023 At her trial, activist Palina Sharenda-Panasiuk reported beatings and pressure in the penal colony
Viasna recounts what happened at the first court hearing in the case of Palina Sharenda-Panasiuk.
