Leaflets about Belarusian political prisoners spread in regions (Photo)

Leaflets with portraits of arrested participant of the Process of 14 Artsyom Dubski and entrepreneur from Vaukavysk Mikalai Autukhovich appeared in the town of Byaroza (the Brest region).

As mfront.net reports, portraits of the political prisoners were pasted to notice-boards and walls. They evoked interest of passers-by, who stopped to read about the victims of political repressions in Belarus.

We remind that “Young Front” activist Artsyom Dubski and businessmen Mikalai Autukhovich and Uladzimir Asipenka are in Belarusian prisons.

On July 7, 2009, Artsyom Dubski was sentenced to a year of imprisonment in a minimum security penal colony for violation of the rules of serving punishment in the Case of 14. Amnesty International recognized the participants of the Process of 14 Prisoners of Conscience in 2009.

Mikalai Autukhovich, Yury Lyavonau, and Uladzimir Asipenka were detained in Vaukavysk on February 8, 2009. On February 18, the entrepreneurs were charged under article 218 of the Criminal Code (intentional damage to or destruction of property of citizens). On June 23, a criminal case under article 359 of the Criminal Code (a terroristic act) in the form of preparation (article 13) was instigated against Autukhovich and “other persons”.

Lyavonau was released from Minsk remand prison on August 8. Al charges against him were dismissed on September 24. Autukhovich and Asipenka are still in detention facility #1 in Minsk.

Human rights activists consider the detained political prisoners, turning attention to the fact that Autukhovich and Lyavonau were convicted before and recognized prisoners of conscience by the international community.