jail torture

Instead of getting medical aid: Poltical prisoner Yauhen Barouski put in disciplinary cell
Although political prisoner Yauhen Barouski urgently needs medical assistance, he was placed in punitive confinement instead, the human rights centre Viasna reports. The man fell ill behind bars.
25.01.2022
Political prisoner Mikita Yemelyanau prosecuted for disobedience in prison
Young man sentenced to 4 years in prison faces a new sentence
20.12.2021
Russia closes case against Belarusian programmer who leaked prison torture videos
He gave human rights activists a video archive of torture in the Saratov colony
11.11.2021
Minsk detention centre: Women's cell in which journo Iryna Slaunikava is held stages hunger strike
A number of female prisoners who were placed under arrest in the notorious detention centre on Akrestsin Street in Minsk has launched a hunger strike in protest against the harsh conditions of confinement.
04.11.2021
Belarusian IT specialist who helped uncover torture in Russian prisons put on wanted list
Syarhei Saveliyeu asked for political asylum in France.
24.10.2021
Imprisoned minor Mikita Zalatarou spends 13 days in punitive confinement
On Sunday, Mikita Zalatarou, a 17-year-old political prisoner and a patient with epilepsy, phoned his father from behind bars and said that he had been given another 6 days in a disciplinary cell after spending there a week.
18.10.2021
Criminal charge brought against opposition politician Mikalai Kazlou
30.06.2021
Journalist Dzyanis Ivashyn gets heart attack behind bars
Imprisoned journalist Dzyanis Ivashyn who was placed in a disciplinary cell underwent a cardiac seizure, his mother Lyudmila said on Monday evening.
29.06.2021
Prisoner Anishchuk swallowed metal objects to stop torture in colony, his lawyer reports
He was forced to write refusals to meet with a lawyer and take on a new criminal article
10.06.2021
Political prisoner Natallia Hersche placed in punishment cell
Belarusian political prisoner Natallia Hershe, who is also a Swiss citizen, was placed in punitive confinement for “violation of the established order of serving a sentence’, her brother Henadz Kasyan told RFE/RL.
03.06.2021
‘He might have been beaten there’. Zmitser Furmanau put in isolation cell, meeting with family cancelled
The parents of political prisoner Zmitser Furmanau (he has been behind bars nearly a year) were to see his son today, but the hopes have not been fulfilled.
26.05.2021
Hrodna resident sentenced for texting threat to policeman
Those who got to Akrestsina jail in August claimed that police officer Yauhen Urubleuski was personally involved in the torture of the detainees
25.01.2021