News on the topic: political prisoners
11.06.2015 Amnesty International recognizes Yury Rubtsou prisoner of conscience
The international human rights organization Amnesty International launches an urgent action in support of Mr. Rubtsou.
10.06.2015 Political prisoner Prakapenka earns 50,000 rubles a month
June 8-9, political prisoner Artsiom Prakapenko had a long-term meeting with his parents. In fact, it lasted less than a day - from 3 p.m. to 11 a.m. the following day.
09.06.2015 Presentation of "Chronicles of Belarusian political prisoners"
The editorial office of the website Palitviazni.info invites to the presentation of the book "Chronicles of Political Prisoners".
09.06.2015 Political prisoner Alinevich about Vićba-3 correctional facility: More and more people arrive
Ihar Alinevich calls home after almost a month of silence.
09.06.2015 Political prisoner Mikalai Dziadok gets incarcerated
The political prisoner has been placed in a punitive isolation ward for 7 days for refusing to work.
08.06.2015 Mikalai Dziadok gets transferred to prison union and sent to work
As it follows from a letter of political prisoner Mikalai Dziadok, cited by the website abc-belarus.org, the bureaucratic protractions surrounding his transfer to the prison unit are over.
05.06.2015 FIDH: European governments must take action to release the political prisoners in Azerbaijan
One week before the opening ceremony of the first European Games in the history of the continent, FIDH calls on the European leaders to make the participation of their countries in the opening ceremony of the Games contingent upon the release of political prisoners and activists placed in pre-trial detention on trumped-up charges.
04.06.2015 Baranavičy: Yadviha Rubtsova visits her husband in prison
June 3 Yadviha Rubtsova, wife of political prisoner Yury Rubtsou, visited her husband, who is currently held in jail No.6 in Baranavičy. This is the first meeting of Mrs. Jadviha and her husband after the trial, which declared Yury Rubtsou guilty of evasion of serving punishment of restraint of liberty (Art. 415 of the Criminal Code), and punished him with two years of medium security colony, taking into account the unserved term of punishment.
02.06.2015 Mikalai Autukhovich is appealing alleged arrear in payment of insurance fees during his imprisonment
Former political prisoner and entrepreneur Mikalai Autukhovich continues to challenge the illegal actions of the Department of Social Protection Fund (SPF) of Vaŭkavysk district, which requires him to pay the debt on compulsory insurance payments to the budget provided for entrepreneurs.
02.06.2015 Biaroza officials again regard solidarity with political prisoners as "inciting ethnic hatred"
Biaroza human rights defenders and social activists have been again denied the opportunity to publicly voice their disagreement with the tax on the unemployed and the presence of political prisoners in the country.
01.06.2015 Situation of political prisoners in Belarus worsening
FIDH and its member organisation in Belarus, Human Rights Center "Viasna," are deeply concerned about the deteriorating detention conditions of political prisoners Yury Rubtsou, Makalai Statkevich, Mikalai Dziadok and Ihar Alynevich.
28.05.2015 Valyantsin Stefanovich: In colony Mikalai Dzyadok subjected to torture
The penitentiary system of Belarus has preserved many elements of totalitarian past.
28.05.2015 Ales Bialiatski: “Election” is show with pre-planned result
In fact, the “election campaign” has started with obvious signals of intimidation of the Belarusian society.
28.05.2015 Political prisoner Yury Rubtsou sentenced to two years in penal colony
The Pružany District Court has sentenced political prisoner Yury Rubtsou to two years of imprisonment in a minimum security penal colony on charges of evasion of serving his initial sentence.
27.05.2015 No news from Alinevich
For a long time there has been no information about the political prisoner Ihar Alinevich who serves his punishment in the colony Vitsba-3.
