letters to political prisoners

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

The prisoner himself believes that he won’t stay there for long

Alena was deprived of all parcels and visits from her loved ones

There is now an online museum of letters of Belarusian political prisoners.

Zdeněk Hřib had no hope that the letter would reach her

She feels good, she’s not stressed, except she’s worried about her hair, which has started to fall out.

On Friday, Ihar Ilyash, the husband of imprisoned Belsat TV journalist Katsyaryna Andreyeva, has received the first letter after her being transferred to the women’s colony in Homiel.

Residents of the village of Senitsa (Minsk district) write letters to political prisoners every day; both the imprisoned and those at large need them, Alyaksei, the author of the special photo project, believes.

Brest resident Palina Sharenda-Panasyuk was able to pass a letter to freedom during her stay in pre-trial detention center No. 7, in which she wrote about torture.