Дзяніс ІВашын

Lyudmila Ivashyna, the mother of the imprisoned journalist Dzyanis Ivashyn, has not received letters or postcards from her son for more than four months.

Political prisoner Dzyanis Ivashyn has been put in punitive confinement again, his wife Volha reports.

He has been in solitary confinement for over a week now

Hrodna journalist Dzyanis Ivashyn has been behind bars for 228 days. He has not been given letters for a long time.

Aleh Varanetski, the head of the KGB investigation department in Hrodna region, informed Volha Ivashyna of levelling two charges against her husband.

Imprisoned journalist Dzyanis Ivashyn who was placed in a disciplinary cell underwent a cardiac seizure, his mother Lyudmila said on Monday evening.

On March 24, eight human rights watchdogs issued a joint statement on jailing and charging reputed Belarusian media worker and expert Dzyanis Ivashyn.

On Monday, Belarusian security officers have searched the home of arrested journalist Dzyanis Ivashyn’s 95-year-old grandmother, human rights centre Viasna reports with reference to his wife Volha Ivashyna.