11.08.2011 Political prisoner Zmitser Bandarenka stays in Minsk hospital #5

As the wife of the political prisoner has informed, he is to undergo rehabilitation there. After the operation at the end of July, Volha Bandarenka saw her husband only once. But she says that she will push for one more meeting with her husband, ERB reports.

10.08.2011 Investigation into Anatol Liabedzka’s case resumed

The investigation in the case of “19 December mass riot” against Anatol Liabedzka was resumed on 1 August 2011. The politician called this decision “a political one, not a legal one”, ucpb.org informs.

10.08.2011 Mikita Likhavid: "I don't take part in this

The political prisoner writes that he is pressured in the penal colony to make him write petition for pardon.

09.08.2011 Case of new accused of 19 December “mass riot” passed to court

Sviataslau Baranovich has been kept in the pre-trial prison #1 in Valadarski Street in Minsk since 15 June. The investigation into his case is over. Soon he will be familiarized with the materials of his case. The Minsk City Court also has to decide which of the district courts of the Minsk will try the case.

09.08.2011 Mikalai Statkevich confirmed fact of tortures in KGB prison

A former presidential candidate Mikalai Statkevich was interrogated in the case of investigation of torture facts in the KGB remand prison. The interrogation was held by the Military Prosecutor’s Office in Shklou penal colony, where Mr. Statkevich serves his term. RFE/RL has been informed about that by the wife of the political prisoner Maryna Adamovich.

08.08.2011 President of European Parliament urges to free Ales Bialiatski

Jerzy Buzek released a statement just after the detention of the Belarusian human rights activist. The President of the European Parliament expresses his concern over the ongoing harassment on the Human Rights Center Viasna and its head Ales Bialiatski. Jerzy Buzek urges the Belarusian authorities to release the human rights activist and other political prisoners, PAP informs.

08.08.2011 Journalist Tatsiana Shaputska sentenced to 10 days of arrest

Tatsiana Shaputska, a journalist of the Novy Chas newspaper, who had been detained in Horki, was sentenced to10 days of administrative arrest.

03.08.2011 Navapolatsk authorities changed their ruling on mass events to ban picket in support of Mikita Likhavid

On 18 July democratic activists, including members of the Belarusian Popular Front Party, the For Freedom movement and the Human Rights Center Viasna applied to the Navapolatsk Town Executive Committee with the request to authorize a picket in support of political prisoner Mikita Likhavid who is subject to constant pressurization in jail.

03.08.2011 Horki: action in support of political prisoner Zmitser Dashkevich ended with detentions

About 30 people arrived to the colony in Horki on 2 August. They demanded that political prisoner Zmitser Dashkevich was allowed to meet with his lawyer. The colony's administration refuses to let the lawyer in until receiving a corresponding request from Dashkevich himself.

03.08.2011 People address Lukashenka asking to mitigate penalty to Zmitser Bandarenka

Public activists held an action “Save Zmitser Bandarenka” in Minsk on 2 August. They lodged personal petitions to the chancellery of the Presidential Administration asking to mitigate the punishment to politician Zmitser Bandarenka.

01.08.2011 Mazyr authorities ban picket in support of Mikita Likhavid

Ales Kavalchuk and Ryhor Kryvitski, civil activists from Mazyr, applied to the Mazyr District Executive Committee to obtain permission for holding a picket in support of political prisoner Mikita Likhavid who is subject to constant pressurization in jail.

29.07.2011 Dzmitry Bandarenka`s woes can prompt EU to expand economic sanctions against Belarus, warns Polish MEP

The woes of imprisoned politician Dzmitry Bandarenka, who underwent back surgery this week, can prompt the Council of the European Union to expand its economic sanctions against Minsk, Jacek Protasiewicz, head of the European Parliament`s Delegation for Relations with Belarus, said in an interview with Polskie Radio on Thursday.

28.07.2011 Lawyer not allowed to see Dashkevich

Maryana Syameshka, Zmitser Dashkevich's lawyer, and Nasta Palazhanka, the fiancee of the political prisoner, visited the penal colony in Horki on Thursday.

27.07.2011 Dashkevich in punishment cell again

Young Front leader Zmitser Dashkevich has been thrown into a punishment cell in the Horki penal colony for the third time.

27.07.2011 Bandarenka may be returned to prison just after operation

The coordinator of European Belarus civil campaign has undergone surgery today at the 5th hospital in Minsk.

The operation lasted for 2.5 hours. “Neurosurgeons said it was successful,” the wife of the political prisoner, Volha Bandarenka, said. It is too early to make any conclusions, because such operations require at least some months of rehabilitation.