Belarusian political prisoners

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.

Ales Bialiatski was not included in the amnesty but was amnestied on its first day. The other political prisoners’ situation is more complicated.

The ex-political prisoner has announced it at the first press conference after his release today, on June 23.

Brussels welcomes the release of Belarus' prominent human rights defender Ales Bialiatski.