News on the topic: political prisoners
14.08.2015 Pavel Sapelka: Interior Ministry arbitrarily, without sufficient justification, reduces the already limited rights of prisoners
Prison censors did not allow Yauhen Vaskovich inquire about the possibility of distance learning at European Humanitarian University.
14.08.2015 Bundestag member Manuel Sarrazin: Mikalai Dziadok needs our support
Manuel Sarrazin, a German politician and Bundestag member (Alliance 90/The Greens), calls to express solidarity with Belarusian political prisoners.
13.08.2015 Portraits of Mikalai Statkevich seen at electoral pickets in Babrujsk (photos)
On Mikalai Statkevich's birthday, collectors of signatures in Babrujsk decided to remind citizens about political prisoners. Members of the initiative groups of Anatol Liabedzka and Tatsiana Karatkevich put on T-shirts with portraits of Mr. Statkevich and also placed such portraits on their stands.
13.08.2015 Ales Bialiatski: Repressive machinery is ready to repeat 2010
Lukashenka continues selling political prisoners.
12.08.2015 Join the action dedicated to Mikalai Statkevich's birthday!
Today, August 12, the Belarusian political prisoner Mikalai Statkevich, who is the last candidate for presidency in the 2010 elections who is still held in jail, celebrates his birthday. He will spend another birthday in prison, in a one-man cell, without seeing the sky and the trees, without hearings the birds singing...
12.08.2015 Ihar Alinevich faces another disciplinary punishment in correctional colony
According to the information, reported to the Human Rights Center “Viasna” by the mother of Ihar Alinevich, Valiantsina Alinevich, the political prisoner is waiting for a decision about a new disciplinary punishment.
11.08.2015 Yury Rubtsou got transferred to Babrujsk colony
As the HRC “Viasna” learned on August 11, political prisoner Yury Rubtsou was transferred to penal colony №2 in Babrujsk. Most probably, it was done at the weekend, as on Friday he was still in the remand prison in Baranavičy.
07.08.2015 Constitutional Court decided not to deal with violation of Andrei Haidukou's rights
BCD activist Andrei Haidukou has received an answer from the Constitutional Court regarding his appeal concerning the contradiction between a resolution of Navapolack City Executive Committee regarding a mass event and the international undertakings of Belarus.
07.08.2015 Pavel Sapelka comments on the decision to extend preventive supervision over Mikalai Autukhovich
August 6, Vaŭkavysk District Court reconsidered the case on the extension of preventive supervision over the former political prisoner Mikalai Autukhovich without his participation. Autukhovich himself is still in the local hospital after a hypertensive crisis.
06.08.2015 Mikalai Autukhovich taken to hospital with hypertensive crisis
Most likely, Mikalai Autukhovich is having a hypertensive crisis: his blood pressure has increased rapidly, he is feeling unwell, having headaches... Most probably, this is result of the unpleasant events of the last days and the heat …
06.08.2015 Ex-political prisoner Mikalai Autukhovich: The circus show is going on!
It will be decided at the trial today whether police supervision over Mikalai Autukhovich will be extended.
05.08.2015 An action in support of political prisoners held in Hrodna
Human rights activists from the Human Rights Center “Viasna” and the Belarusian Helsinki Committee held an informational action in support of political prisoners on August 4.
05.08.2015 Monitoring report on the picket on August 4, dedicated to political prisoners and disappeared politicians
August 4, 2015 in Minsk a picket dedicated to the issue of political prisoners and missing politicians, organized by the United Civil Party, was held on Niezaliežnasć Avenue in Minsk, near the monument to Felix Dzerzhinsky.
05.08.2015 Action of solidarity with political prisoners in Baranavičy
On August 4, the International Day of Solidarity with civil society of Belarus, Baranavičy human rights defenders and social activists, held an information campaign to inform about the presence of political prisoners in Belarus: Ihar Alinevich, Mikalai Dziadok, Artsiom Prakapenka, Yury Rubtsou, Mikalai Statkevich and Yauhen Vaskovich, - and demand their release.
05.08.2015 Minsk: picket in support of political prisoners held in front of KGB
On August 4, the International Day of Solidarity with civil society in Belarus, Belarusian human rights defenders and civil society activists held a picket in support of political prisoners and in the memory of the missing opponents of the regime: Viktar Hanchar, Anatol Krasouski, Yury Zakharanka and Dzmitry Zavadski.
