News on the topic: political prisoners
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.
05.08.2015 Rally in support of political prisoners in Belarus held in Vilnius
Belarusian political prisoners were supported in the capital of Lithuania.
05.08.2015 Day of Solidarity with Belarus in Kyiv
The international day of solidarity with Belarusian civil society has been held in the Ukrainian capital on August 4 for the fourth year.
05.08.2015 Ales Bialiatski: One should not believe Lukashenka’s words about Statkevich’s release
The statement of the dictator was verbalized under “fifty-fifty” principle, one should simply wait for his further moves.
04.08.2015 Leanid Svetsik is not allowed to picket on International Day of Solidarity with civil society of Belarus
The official reason for the ban is the absence of service with the public utilities, police and medics. The human rights activist was informed about it in a letter signed by the head of the Čyhunačny District Executive Committee Natalllia Liapioshkina.
04.08.2015 Yury Rubtsou: number of walks is reduced, the quality of food is poor
The political prisoner Yury Rubtsou told his wife, who visited him in prison in Baranavičy, that the number of walks was groundlessly restricted and the food served to the prisoners was of poor quality.
04.08.2015 Zmitser Dashkevich: EU encourages Lukashenka to take new “hostages”
Lifting sanctions from 24 Belarusian officials and judges means unprincipled trade ahead of the so called election.
03.08.2015 Ales Bialiatski sees no clear grounds for reducing the EU sanctions list
As it became known today, the Council of the European Union by its decision dated 31 July lifted the sanctions from 24 Belarusian officials involved in the persecution and repression of civil society.
01.08.2015 Biaroza authorities ban picket of solidarity with political prisoners
Biaroza District Executive Committee dismissed the appeal of the local human rights activists for holding a picket of solidarity with political prisoners on August 4, the International Day of Solidarity with Belarusian Civil Society.
31.07.2015 Supreme Court rejects appeal by political prisoner Ihar Alinevich
According to Valiantsina Alinevich, the mother of political prisoner Ihar Alinevich, she has received a letter from her son, which said that the Supreme Court has dismissed the political prisoner’s supervisory appeal.
29.07.2015 Siarhei Skrabets: Mikalai Statkevich is tortured in prison
The political prisoner is held in solitary confinement without light and fresh air.
28.07.2015 Mikalai Dziadok’s mother: “Two square meters – standard room per prisoner. It’s horrible!”
Almost a month has passed since political prisoner Mikalai Dziadok was confined in so called ‘cell-type premises’ (PKT) in penal colony No. 9 in Horki.
26.07.2015 Brest Regional Court turns down appeal in Yury Rubtsou case
On July 24, the Brest Regional Court rejected the appeal of political prisoner Yury Rubtsou against a decision of the Pružany District Court, leaving the two-year sentence unchanged. The activist, who was serving a sentence in a correctional facility of open type in the village Kuplin, Pružany district, was accused of evasion from serving the punishment of restraint of liberty (Art. 415 of the Criminal Code).
22.07.2015 Maryna Adamovich: “Refusal to register Statkevich’s initiative group violates the law”
Maryna Adamovich, the wife of political prisoner Mikalai Statkevich, and head of his campaign team, argues that the refusal to register his initiative violates the Electoral Code.
14.07.2015 Mikalai Dziadok. Bitter taste of colony in Horki
Mikalai Dziadok has been held in the correctional colony in Horki for two months already. He was transferred there on May 12, after being sentenced to one year of imprisonment under Article 411 of the Criminal Code.
