The Human Rights Center “Viasna”

05.10.2010 Kanstantsin Zhukouski released after 10-days arrest

Oct. 4 October the member of the organizing committee of the Belarusian Christian Democracy Kanstantsin Zhukouski was released from the pre-trial prison of the Petrykau District Police Department.

14.07.2010 Vitsebsk: Siarhei Kavalenka goes on hunger-strike in prison

On 8 July, the Vitsebsk activist of the Conservative-Christian Party Belarusian Popular Front was put in a temporary detention facility for 10 days on decision of the Pershamaiski District Police Department.

02.07.2010 Mikalai Autukhovich had to go on hunger strike to receive prosthodontic treatment

As RFE/RL learnt from Autukhovich’s lawyer, Pavel Sapelka, the political prisoner was visited by dentists in a detention facility in Minsk.

24.06.2010 Mikalai Atukhovich suspends hunger-strike

On 23 June Mikalai Autukhovich suspended hunger-strike after a meeting with chief doctor of Minsk detention center, who promised that the prisoner’s main demand (prosthodontic treatment) would be fulfilled, Radio Racyja reports.

24.06.2010 TB patients on hunger strike in Belarus

TB patients of an enclosed-type hospital for consumption in Vaukovichy (near the town of Dzyarzhynsk) have gone on hunger strike.

The patients demand the hospital administration to create normal conditions for them.

22.06.2010 Autukhovich’s demands partially met

The demands by the political prisoner Mikalai Autukhovich, who went on hunger-strike on 18 June, were partially met, European Radio for Belarus reports.

18.06.2010 Political prisoner Mikalai Autukhovich goes on hunger strike

The wrongly convicted prisoner of conscience has serious problems with health. This hunger strike can kill him.

Lawyer Pavel Sapelka told Radio Svaboda that Vaukavsyk businessman Mikalai Autukhovich has gone on hunger strike.

08.06.2010 Vaukavysk: disabled UCP activist can go on hunger-strike of protest

A UCP activist from Vaukavysk, Vital Huliak, was unable to receive his disability pension, because his bank card had been seized by the police.

09.03.2010 Activist of Belarusian Christian Democracy went on hunger-strike

Andrei Kasheuski, activist of the organizing committee of the Belarusian Christian Democracy party (BCD) went on hunger-strike to protest against his arrest. The activist was detained on 3 March in the evening in Minsk metro and was taken to the Leninski district court in Minsk where he was sentenced to 15 days of administrative arrest for alleged disorderly conduct, BelaPAN informs. At the moment the activist is kept in the prison in Akrestsin Street.

06.11.2009 Hunger-striker Bandarenka placed to prison hospital

The businessman Andrei Bandarenka started his hunger-strike on 19 October. He protests against the verdict issued by the Pershamaiski district court of Minsk.

23.10.2009 Former Parliament deputy candidate goes on hunger-strike

According to the United Civil Party’s pres-service, Andrei Bandarenka, who was running for the Parliament in 2008, who is now serving a 7-year term for an economic crime, has embarked on a hunger-strike as a protest against the groundless sentence. ‘Mr. Bandarenka has chosen for himself this kind of protest. For my own part, I and a colleague of mine are using procedure means – drawing up a number of complaints. As for Andrei, all he can do is express his protest in this way’, says Mr. Bandarenka’s lawyer Zmitser Layeuski.

07.10.2009 Mikalai Autukhovich doesn’t regain weight after hunger-strike

Pavel Sapelka, lawyer of the political prisoner Mikalai Autukhovich, states his client hasn’t recovered after the long hungry strike.

09.09.2009 Mikalai Autukhovich is returned to prison ward

The political prisoner was transferred from the medical unit of the detention facility to a common cell. Lawyer Pavel Sapelka visited Mikalai Autukhovich on 8 September.

08.09.2009 Navapolatsk entrepreneur Yauheniya Bochurnaya declares indefinite hunger-strike

According to unofficial information, on 4 September Navapolatsk entrepreneur Yauheniya Bochurnaya, director of the open stock society Votrzzha, declared an indefinite hunger-strike. This was stated to the BelaPAN by her husband, Uladzimir Zhurba.