Freedom to political prisoners!

Sunday of December 19, 2010, was called “bloody” in Belarus. On the day of the presidential elections, a peaceful rally against the rigged election results was brutally dispersed and more than 1000 people, among them most presidential candidates, members of their teams, journalists and human rights activists, were arrested. More than 40 people were jailed. Presidential candidates and activists of their teams received unprecedentedly long jail sentences – from 2 to 6 years.

Innocent people spent almost a year behind bars facing torture and inhuman treatment. Lukashenka had to release some political prisoners due to Western sanctions and the catastrophic state of the country's economy. Former presidential candidate Andrei Sannikov and coordinator of European Belarus civil campaign Zmitser Bandarenka were freed in April 2012 after spending almost 18 months in prison.

Presidential candidate Mikalai Statkevich, Young Front leader Zmitser Dashkevich, businessman Mikalai Autukhovich, human rights activist Ales Byalyatski and 9 activists are still in jail.

The international community and human rights organisations demand to release the Belarusian prisoners of conscience. Seeking the release of remaining 14 political prisoners, the European Union and the United States imposed visa restrictions and economic sanctions on dictator's cronies – officials and businessmen involved in repressions and providing financial aid to the regime.

Mikalai Autukhovich:  230023, ul. Kirova 1, Hrodna, prison No.1

Ales Byalyatski: 213800, Babruisk, ul. Sikorskogo 1, IK No.2

Yauheny Vaskovich: 212011, Mahilou, ul. Krupskoi 99а, prison №4

Andrei Haidukou: 210026, Vitebsk, ul. Gagarina 2, SIZO №1

Zmitser Dashkevich: 230023, ul. Kirova 1, Hrodna, prison №1

Mikalai Dzyadok: 212011, Mahilou, ul. Krupskoi 99а, prison №4

Eduard Lobau: 225295, Ivatsevichy, PO Box 20, IK №22

Alyaksandr Mauchanau: 222125, Borisovski r-n, Navasady, IK №14

Ihar Alinevich: 211440, Navapolatsk, ul. Technichnaya 8, IK №10

Artyom Prakapenka: 212013, Mahilou, Slavgorodskoye Shosse 183, IK №15

Mikalai Statkevich: 212011, Mahilou, ul. Krupskoi 99а, prison №4

Pavel Sevyarynets: 225143, Pruzhanski r-n, Kuplin, IUOT №7

Alyaksandr Frantskevich: 225295, Ivatsevichy,  PO Box 20, IK №22

3.05.2013

Political prisoner Lobau denied dental treatment in prison

13:45, — Politics

The authorities of penal colony No. 22 in Ivatsevichy have been denying dental treatment to political prisoner Eduard Lobau for 18 months.

30.04.2013

“Spy” case to be submitted to court

12:14, — Politics

Andrei Haidukou, a young man suspected of spying, reads files of his criminal case.

29.04.2013

Are they trying poisoning Mikalaj Statkievich in prison?

11:26, — Politics

Prison warders give the political prisoner food in separate specially marked plates.

23.04.2013

Alienievich sent to penal cell for 20 days

12:23, — Politics

The political prisoner wrote about that in a letter to his mother Valancina Alienievich.

22.04.2013

Demands to free Statkevich in Minsk centre

17:09, — Politics

A big portrait of a political prisoner appeared near the Niamiha metro station.

15.04.2013

After book release no letters come from Alienievich

13:07, — Politics

In March a book “Going to Magadan” by a Belarusian political prisoner Ihar Alienievich came out in Russia.

4.04.2013

Jauhen Vaskovich: I will bear my cross till the end 9

10:34, — Politics

The political prisoner wrote a letter to his grandmother Tamara Uladzimirauna.

1.04.2013

Prison staff steal postcards to Statkevich

13:46, — Politics

A political prisoner didn't receive postcards with Freedom Day congratulations.

Political prisoner Dzyadok cannot receive medicines

12:57, — Politics

The prison authorities refused to accept a medical parcel for Mikalai Dzyadok.

Bialatski’s property taken away from his apartment

12:09, — Politics

Court officers started taking away the things, which were distrained before, from the apartment of the political prisoner.

29.03.2013

Authorities don't want to hear about political prisoners

14:33, — Politics

Members of the European Parliament can be allowed to enter Belarus only if they don't talk about political prisoners.

Political prisoner Dzyadok thrown into punishment cell for 6 days

10:51, — Politics

Mikalai Dzyadok met with his lawyer in prison in Mahilou on March 28.

28.03.2013

Natallya Pinchuk: Paleckis must show his hand

11:28, — Politics

The situation of political prisoners does not and will scarcely change for the better.

27.03.2013

Valyantina Alinevich: Conditions in Belarusian prisons are refined genocide

13:44, — Politics

The judicial system maims and eliminates Belarusians.

Political prisoner Alienievich’s book “Going to Magadan” came out 5

13:09, — Politics

The book by a political prisoner Ihar Alienievich was published based on the diary, written in KGB’s pre-trial jail, Amerikanka.

22.03.2013

Artsiom Prakapenka sent to penal cell for five days

12:29, — Politics

The parents of the political prisoner visited their son in the penitentiary colony number 15 in Mahilou.

21.03.2013

Appeal to Czech president against meeting with Lukashenka 7

13:00, — Politics

Belarusians and Czechs held an action on 20 March in Prague Castle, where the residence of Czech Republic’s president Milosh Zeman is situated.

20.03.2013

Portraits of political prisoners in Minsk's central streets 10

8:35, — Politics

Leaflets calling to release Belarusian political prisoners appeared in Minsk.

13.03.2013

Political prisoner Prakapenka demanded to write a plea for pardon 6

14:18, — Politics

The administration of the Mahilou colony suggests the political prisoner Artsiom Prakapenka to write a plea for pardon.

12.03.2013

Boris Nemtsov: Lukashenka wants to physically eliminate his opponents 23

14:58, — Politics

Russian politician Boris Nemtsov joined the campaign to release Belarusian political prisoners Freedom x 2.