Belarusian political prisoners

Pavel Vinahradau's relatives gathered near the jail in Minsk to meet him as scheduled at 10 a.m. but the activist did not walk out free.

Ihar Alinevich was allowed to meet his parents in jail.

He was a former minister of foreign trade and political prisoner.

Rights defenders in Belarus say that arbitrary preventive detention of activists has become a means of political persecution.

Political analyst Raman Yakauleuski comments on Belarusian Prime Minister Mikhail Myasnikovich’s speech in New York.

The civil organization Institute of Freedom has started raising money to translate the book Bialiatski’s Case into Polish.

A court in Minsk rules to lift preventive police supervision from ex-political prisoner and Youth Front leader Zmicier Dashkevich.

The ex-presidential candidate has turned 58 today.

Foreign Minister Uladzimir Makei tells Belarus state TV there will be no changes in relations between Belarus and EU after Ales Bialiatski's release.