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Political prisoner Prakapenka marks birthday in prison

Anarchist activist Artsiom Prakapenka, who serves prison term in a penal colony in Mahilou, marks his 22nd birthday on July 27. Artsiom Prakapenka was given 7-year imprisonment for arson of the doors of the KGB building in Babruisk. Radio Svaboda called the father of the political prisoner, Anatol Prakapenka, to hear the latest news about

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For communication with Frantskevich prisoners are being thrown in a punishment cell

These are attempts to force the political prisoner Aliaksandr Frantskevich to sign a petition for mercy. This was reported by the mother of political prisoner Alyaksandr Frantskevich. The lad is serving his sentence in the prison № 22 near the village Ivatsevichy. Until recently, there were no complaints. But after that for non-serious violations he

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Inquiry lasted 19 hours. Finally they took off the handcuffs

Valentina Alinevich, mother of the political prisoner Ihar Alinevich passed to our editorial staff the extracts from her son’s diary. “I want people to pay attention to what’s happening in our country,- says Valentina. Today it’s an inhuman treatment and tortures of our relatives and children, but tomorrow the same thing can happen to you

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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 27 June 2012, Belorusski Partizan reports. “It was fault-finding – they said I was badly shaven and read too

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