Despite the fact that court dismissed the appeal, Dzmitry Zvan’ko did not lose the hope and now looks forward to the expected amnesty in honor of 70 years of Victory in the Great Patriotic War or parole. But in both cases he should to pay the full amount awarded by the court. A symbolic actions […]
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Alinevich called “malicious offender” for reading during lights out time
Ihar Alinevich was turned into a “malicious offender of prison rules” some days before the amnesty after a year of good behaviour. The political prisoner wrote this in a letter to his mother Valyantina Alinevich on June 27, Belorusski Partizan reports. “It was fault-finding – they said I was badly shaven and read too much […]
Mikalai Dziadok cuts his abdomen and arms in prison
Mikalai Dziadok protested against tortures by prison staff. Viasna human rights centre learnt it from Valeria Khotsina, the wife of the political prisoner. Mikalai Dziadok was transferred to correctional facility No.9 in Horki for his new prison term on May 12. On May 13, he was thrown into a punishment cell for five days. On […]
Mikalai Dziadok: “I want to be last convict under Article 411 of Criminal Code”
The political prisoner demands to annul Article 411 of the Criminal Code. The Human Rights Center “Viasna” published an open letter by political prisoner Mikalai Dziadok, who draws attention to the gross violations of the rights of those held in prisons, disadvantages and throw-backs of “correctional” institutions, as well as unfair punishment under Article 411 […]
Mikalai Dziadok. Bitter taste of colony in Horki
Mikalai Dziadok has been held in the correctional colony in Horki for two months already. He was transferred there on May 12, after being sentenced to one year of imprisonment under Article 411 of the Criminal Code. During this time the political prisoner has been placed in the penal cell five times and spent there […]