Ruhor Kastusiou

On Tuesday, the Belarusian human rights community issued a joint statement on their recognising another six persons as political prisoners, HRC Viasna reports. Ryhor Kastusiou, the chairman of the Belarusian People’s Front party and a cancer patient, is among them.

Ihar Barysau, chairman of the Belarusian Social Democratic Party (Hramada), received a letter from Ryhor Kastusiou, the imprisoned leader of the Belarusian People’s Front party. The photo of the letter was published by RFE/RL.

Ryhor Kastusiou, Chairman of the Belarusian People’s Front party, is held in the notorious KGB jail ‘Amerykanka’.

Ryhor Kastusiou, the imprisoned leader of the Belarusian People’s Front party, was transferred from the KGB detention centre to the prison hospital on Valadarski Street in Minsk, BPF deputy chairman Vadzim Saranchukou said on Facebook on July, 5.

Ryhor Kastusiou wrote about it.

Propagandists claim that about 150 SUVs with large-caliber machine guns were allegedly being prepared for the coup.

Charges have been brought against the defendants in the so called coup d’etat case, Kanstantsin Bychak, Head of the investigation department of the Belarusian State Security Committee (KGB), told TV station Belarus 1.

Tsikhanouskaya’s team suspects that the statement about the attempt on Lukashenka and his family’s life could be a provocation by the special services.

Ryhor Kastusiou, the leader of the Belarusian People’s Front (BPF) party and a 2010 presidential candidate, was detained in the town of Shklou (Mahiliou region) on Sunday evening.

On Saturday evening, Belarusian border guards stopped Ryhor Kastusiou, Chairman of the Belarusian People’s Front Party (BPF), party member Ihar Lyalkov and two activists of the Together solidarity movement when they were on their way to Belarus.