News on the topic: hunger strike
11.11.2014 Babruisk hunger-strikers are summoned to police
The members of the primary unit of the Free Trade Union of Belarus, dismissed from the plant of tractor details and aggregates in Babruisk, continue their hunger-strike.
10.11.2014 Babruisk hunger-strikers, questioned at police department, declare indefinite hunger-strike
“At present, about 20 people are ready to join the hunger strike. Tomorrow they are going to write an appeal addressed to the local officials and submit it to the executive committee. We haven't received any response from the city authorities so far,” added the head of the primary unit of the FTUB.
05.11.2014 Hunger-strikers from Free Trade Union of Belarus are rudely expelled from Babruisk City Executive Committee
At 10 a.m. on November 5, the members of the Free Trade Union of Belarus who have been dismissed from the Tractor Details and Aggregates Plant, Aliaksandr Hramyka, Aleh Shauchenka, Aliaksandr Varankin and Mikalai Zhybul, declared a hunger-strike in the building of the Babruisk City Executive Committee. The
31.08.2014 Kanstantsin Zhukouski on hunger strike to protest unfair jail term
Homel opposition activist Kanstantsin Zhukouski has started a hunger strike in the temporary detention facility of the city’s department of internal affairs. His administrative case was heard by the Tsentralny District Court of Homel on August 28. The activist was detained by riot police on August 25. A ruling of Judge Volha Kazlova convicted the activist of disobeying police officers (Article 23.4 of the Administrative Code) and sentenced him to an administrative arrest of five 5 days. During the trial, Zhukouski said that he was not guilty of the offense.
08.07.2014 Police deny activist's hunger-strike and refuse to return him T-shirt
Head of Minsk centrel for Minsk detention center, Lieutenant Colonel I. Sakalouski refused to recognize the 25-day hunger strike of an activist from Homel Yury Rubtsou, charging him 1,650,000 rubles for the prison food. The man who didn't eat anything during his stay in the detention center applied to the Maskouski District Court of Minsk.
27.05.2014 Homel activist Yury Rubtsou in hospital after 30 days of hunger strike
Opposition activist Yury Rubtsou has been released from the Homel-based detention center. After his release from a detention center in Minsk on May 21, where the activist had served 25 days of arrest imposed as a result of his involvement in the Chernobyl Way demonstration, he immediately returned to his native city of Homel.
23.04.2014 Opposition activist Maksim Viniarski goes on hunger strike to protest sentencing
Maksim Viniarski, activist of the European Belarus opposition movement, was sentenced last evening to 12 days of arrest by the Court of Minsk’s Frunzenski district.
31.03.2014 Pavel Vinahradau goes on hunger strike in detention centre
Activist Pavel Vinahradau has been on hunger strike for the 18th day. He was sentenced to 25 days in a detention centre.
25.03.2014 Hunger strike at Babruisk tractor spare parts plant
Activists with Belarusian Free Trade Union go on hunger strike over discrimination in collective agreements.
20.12.2013 Opposition activist goes on hunger strike over arrest
Judge Viktorya Shabunia of Minsk Tsentralny District Court punished opposition activist Maksim Viniarski with an administrative arrest of 15 days for involvement in a picket of solidarity with Ukrine’s pro-EU protest, which was held outside the Embassy of Ukraine in Minsk on November 30.
09.04.2013 Polish citizen Teresa Strzelec goes on hunger-strike in Belarus
Tereza Strzelec, who was banned from leaving Belarus, has gone on hunger strike in the Polish consulate in Brest.
01.11.2012 “Young Front” activist Zmitser Kremenetski taken to hospital
Zmitser Kremenetski was detained preventively at the railway station on return from the wedding of the “Young Front” member Mikola Dzemidzenka and sentenced to 5 days for alleged “disorderly conduct” (Article 17.1 of the Code of Administrative Violations).
03.09.2012 Smarhon: trial of participants of action in memory of Rastsislau Lapitski
On 2 September civil activists of Smarhon marked an anniversary of the birth of the head of thena national underground resistance movement in Smarhon and Vialeika Rastsislau Lapitski, whom the Soviet authorities had executed by shooting in 1950.
23.07.2012 Ivan Amelchanka goes on hunger strike in jail
Ivan Amelchanka, who was sentenced to 12 days in custody, appealed against a refusal to register his initiative group in the Central Election Commission.
09.07.2012 Vitsebsk: Alena Semenchukova complains about incarceration conditions
Vitsebsk activist of the “European Belarus” lodged an appeal to the Vitsebk Region Procuracy concerning the inappropriate conditions in the temporary detention facility in Vitsebsk. Alena Semenchukova demands that the procuracy require the MIA board of the Vitsebsk Region Executive Committee to improve the situation.
