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Political prisoners are held in inhumane conditions at Akrestsina detention center
The conditions in which political prisoners are kept at Akrestsina have not improved in July and August 2021.
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Stsiapan Latypau sentenced to 8.5 years in prison
On 16 August 2021, political prisoner Stsyapan Latypau was sentenced to 8.5 years of imprisonment in a medium-security penal colony.
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Political prisoners are denied medical care in Belarusian prisons
The leader of the Belarusian National Front party Ryhor Kastusiou needs urgent hospital care. He might have cancer.
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Offender detention center on Akrestsina Street is Auschwitz of 21st century
Dzianis Urbanovich describes conditions in the Akrestsina offender detention center as genocide: any person who gets there is “simply destroyed”.
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Andrei Dynko: “It’s me, I’ve come back from the other world”
Andrei Dynko, the editor-in-chief of Nasha Historyia, spent 13 days at Akrestsina; he wrote a life-affirming column.
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Nasha Niva editor-in-chief beaten during detention
Yahor Martsinovich, editor-in-chief of Nasha Niva newspaper, was beaten during his detention on 8 July. After the searches at his home and office Martsinovich was taken to the Investigative Committee…
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17-year-old political prisoner accused of violence against police
A new trial of political prisoner Mikita Zalatarou has begun. According to the investigators, he tripped up an employee of the pre-trial detention center and threatened its another employee.
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246 people detained in Belarus in June 2021
According to the Viasna Human Rights Center, at least 246 people were detained in Belarus for participating in peaceful protests and for displaying white-red-white symbols, including on private premises, in…
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Politician Anatol Liabedzka released after 30 days of administrative detention
The politician was detained on 14 May, when he came to support the accused in the student case trial, and was sentenced to 30 days of detention.
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Former prisoner in penal colony where political prisoner Vitold Ashurak died speaks about horrors happening there
A former prisoner of the Shklou penal colony No. 17, where political prisoner Vitold Ashurak was killed, spoke about the horror happening there.