23.07.2009 Political prisoner Artsyom Dubski stopped hunger strike

The participant of the Process of 14 stopped his hunger strike as the administration of the pre-trial detention center in Babruisk treats him “better”.

On July 17, officers of the detention center demanded Dubski to apply for transferring him in a penal colony to serve his punishment. After that the “Young Front” activist was denied medical aid, taken away his belongings, and conditions of detention for him were worsened. Artsyom Dubski went on hunger strike in protest on July 20, Radio Svaboda reports.

20.07.2009 Political prisoner Artsyom Dubski went on hungers strike

The “Young Front” activist went on hunger strike against pressure of the administration of the detention facility in Babruisk.

Alena Dubskaya, mother of the political prisoner, told this to Radio Svaboda.

The woman said the lawyer visited her son Artsyom Dubski on July 16 and they made an appeal against the decision of the Asipovichy district court. The administration of the pre-trial detention facility in Babruisk told Dubski on next day to write an application for transferring him in a penal colony to serve the punishment.

16.07.2009 Autukhovich stopped 3-month hunger strike – he is in critical condition

The longest hunger strike ever held by Belarusian political prisoners was stopped on July 16, the Day of Belarusian Solidarity.

Website www.charter97.org learnt this information today morning from political prisoner Mikalai Autukhovich’s lawyer Pavel Sapelka, who visited his client in detention facility #1 in Minsk. The hunger strike lasted for three months, since April 16. The prisoner has lost 35 kilograms for this period.

08.07.2009 Mikalai Autukhovich has been hungering for 82 days already

Youth activists continue actions in support of the political prisoner Mikalai Autukhovich, who is on hunger strike for the 84th day in pre-trial detention facility #1 of the police department of Minsk city executive committee.

01.07.2009 Emanuel Zeltser has been released from Mahiliou prison

The US citizen Emanuel Zeltser was released from penal colony #15 in Mahiliou in the evening on June 30. The former prisoner flew to the United States at 5:30 a.m. on 1 July.

01.07.2009 Activists of ‘European Belarus’ arrested for action in support of Mikalai Autukhovich

Maxim Viniarski and Uladzimir Kumets spent the night at Tsentralny district police department of Minsk.

30.06.2009 Alexander Milinkevich applies Homel oblast court and prosecutor’s office

The leader of the For Freedom movement Alexander Milinkevich has addressed the head of Homel oblast court Liudmila Mikhalkova and the prosecutor of Homel oblast Valiantsin Shayeu. In his address he states that the founder of human rights educational association For Freedom Uladzimir Katsora has been several times sentenced to administrative arrest for far-fetched reasons.

30.06.2009 Mikalai Autukhovich’s state of health deteriorates

The entrepreneur from Vaukavysk Mikalai Autukhovich has already been on hunger strike for more than 70 days in Minsk pre-trial detention center #1.

30.06.2009 Human rights defenders call on prosecutor general to release Vaukavysk entrepreneurs

Human rights defenders have appealed to the prosecutor general with the request to free three opponents of the government, Mikalai Autukhovich, Yury Liavonau and Uladzimir Asipenka, from custody.

29.06.2009 Homel: police burst into hunger-strikers’ apartment

Policemen and people in mufti burst into a private house of democratic activist in Homel on Friday evening.

26.06.2009 Emmanuel Zeltser stops hunger-strike till 30 June

According to information of the lawyer Zmitser Harachka, the American businessman Emmanuel Zetser, currently serving a prison term in Mahiliou prison, has stopped his hunger-strike of protest till 30 June. The layer refused from commenting on this step of his client.

25.06.2009 Opposition activist Uladzimir Katsora went on dry hunger strike in prison

On June 25, the judge of the Tsentralny district court of Homel found guilty five participants of a peaceful action of solidarity with kidnapped general Yury Zakharanka.

Opposition activists Pyotr Kuznyatsou, Vasiky Palyakou, Anatol Paplauny and a namesake of kidnapped former interior minister Yury Zakharanka were fined 700,000 Belarusian rubles, Radio Svaboda reports.

Uladzimir Katsora, regional coordinator of the “For Freedom” movement was arrested for three days. Protesting, the politician declared a dry hunger strike in the courtroom.

16.06.2009 Hunger strike of US citizen Emanuel Zeltser in Mahilyou colony lasts one week

The US citizen Emanuel Zeltser continues his hunger strike in the medical unit of the correctional colony of Mahilyou, a lawyer Dzmitry Harachka, who visited the colony on June 15.

The hunger strike lasts since June 8. In this way the American lawyer tries to attract attention to the fact that issuing a special document to him is dragged out. Without the document the administration of the colony cannot consider including him in the amnesty, BelaPAN informs.

On June 11 Harachka sent complaints to the Supreme Court and the office of Prosecutor General against actions of Minsk city court. There is no response to the complaint so far, the lawyer informs.

10.06.2009 Emanuel Zeltser goes on hunger-strike

The arrested US citizen protests against arbitrary action of Belarusian authorities and demands immediate release.

09.06.2009 Mikalai Autukhovich’s lawyer Pavel Sapelka complained to the prosecutor’s office of Belarus against actions of the investigation

‘I cannot tell which actions I am complaining about, because I have signed the pledge of secrecy of the investigation materials,’ said Pavel Sapelka.