14.03.2011 Political prisoners are being sent to prisons

On 12 March judgments to Dzmitry Novik and Aliaksandr Malchanau, convicted participants of the protest rally on Independence Square on 19 December, entered into legal force. They were found guilty with participation in mass riots and sentenced to 3.5 and 3 years respectively.

04.03.2011 A result of torture? Political prisoner Bulanau has swollen legs and aching joints

Relatives of political prisoners started interpreting the information they receive from the KGB prison in a different way after a shocking confession of ex-presidential candidate Aliaksei Mikhalevich about being tortured in the KGB prison.

24.02.2011 Catholics ask bishops to hold a brief for political prisoners

The appeal is signed by Catholic activists from dozens of Belarusian cities.

11.01.2011 Amnesty International urges Belarus to free prisoners of conscience held after post-election protest

Amnesty International today called for the unconditional release of 16 Belarusian activists and journalists charged with ‘organizing mass disorder’ following a post-election demonstration in December, and declared them prisoners of conscience.

10.01.2011 KGB prisoners aren't allowed to meet with their lawyers for 12 days already

Lawyers of a presidential candidate Andrei Sannikau, a European Belarus coordinator Dzmitry Bandarenka, journalists Iryna Khalip and Natallia Radzina, met with their clients for the last time on 29 December 2010 when their clients were filed charges.

13.12.2010 Pavel Sapelka: Mikalai Autukhovich is pressurized at a full scale

A lawyer Pavel Sapelka had a meeting with the political prisoner Mikalai Autukhovich at the Ivatsevichy colony. The lawyer didn’t see Autukhovich’s ward for several months before the meeting.

15.11.2010 ‘Fate of Mikalai Autukhovich depends on everyone’

On 10 November in Minsk the film producer Volha Mikalaichyk presented her new documentary Travel across Endless War. The film is dedicated to the veteran of the War in Afghanistan, political prisoner and former entrepreneur Mikalai Autukhovich.

09.11.2010 Veterans of War in Afghanistan demand prosecution of investigators of Asipenka’s case

A claim with this demand was filed to the General Prosecutor’s Office on 8 November.

09.11.2010 Political prisoner Uladzimir Asipenka released from jail

The entrepreneur was released on parole from the Ivatsevychy colony 3 months and 4 days before the end of the term of his punishment.

11.10.2010 Autukhovich’s counsel didn’t receive letter from his client

The administration of the Ivatsevichy penal colony where the political prisoner Mikalai Autukhovich is serving his prison term keeps seizing some of the letters mailed by him. In particular, as it was found by Autukhovich’s counsel Pavel Sapelka during a recent telephone talk with his client, the latter send him a letter three weeks ago. However, Mr. Sapelka still hasn’t received it. The lawyer wasn’t surprised with this fact, taking into consideration the relations between the prison administration and the prisoner.

02.07.2010 Mikalai Autukhovich had to go on hunger strike to receive prosthodontic treatment

As RFE/RL learnt from Autukhovich’s lawyer, Pavel Sapelka, the political prisoner was visited by dentists in a detention facility in Minsk.

14.06.2010 Political prisoner Uladzimir Asipenka transferred to Ivatsevichy penal colony

According to the available information, the prisoner was transferred to the penal colony on 5 June, but his family learnt this only a week after. As BelaPAN reports, Uladzimir Asipenka, convicted in the case of Vaukavysk entrepreneurs, has been transferred from a detention facility in Minsk to a penal colony in Ivatsevichy (the Brest region) for serving his term.

10.06.2010 Counsel Hrabouski: verdict to Yakavenka was copied from prosecutor's ruling

On 9 June, lawyer Yauhen Hrabouski familiarized with a copy of the verdict to his client, conscientious objector Yauhen Yakavenka, who has been recently punished by the Tsentralny District Court of Homel with 1 year of personal restraint with direction to an open penitentiary institution.

08.06.2010 Political prisoner Mikalai Autukhovich denied medical aid

Mikalai Autukhovich is denied the necessary medical treatment at the detention facility in Minsk where he is currently kept. Lawyer Pavel Sapelka worries about the fact that Mikalai Autukhovich hasn’t handled his problems with health a month after the verdict was announced.

25.05.2010 Artsyom Dubski released

Political prisoner Artsyom Dubski has been taken from a penal colony and released at the railway station in Mahilou early in the morning.

Those wanting to meet Artsyom at the gates of colony #16 had to go to the station, Radio Svaboda reports.