tortures

Tsikhanouskaya sent a letter to Google.

Ten female cellmates, including journalist Iryna Slaunikava, have been hunger striking in the two-man cell of the infamous detention centre on Akrestsin Street in Minsk since Wednesday evening.

On November 4, Neil Bush, Head of the United Kingdom’s Delegation to the Organisation for Security and Co-operation in Europe, delivered a statement on behalf of 35 OSCE states to invoke the Vienna Mechanism in relation to serious human rights violations in Belarus.

The European Center for Constitutional and Human Rights (ECCHR) together with the World Organisation Against Torture (OMCT) have filed a criminal complaint with the Attorney General in Germany against six named, high-ranking members of the Belarusian security apparatus for crimes against humanity, omct.org reports.

Most of the arrestees in the so called Zeltsar case are being held in Zhodzina prison Nr 8. Parcels containing food and essentials have not been handed over to them for more than 20 days, human rights centre Viasna reports.

He had been sentenced to nine years in jail

Vladimir Osechkin, the founder of the Russian human rights group Gulagu.net, says that they have information about Russian special services’ contribution to recent torture cases in Belarus.

Political prisoner Palina Sharenda-Panasyuk is in punitive isolation ward yet again. Her husband Andrey Sharenda claims that not only his wife but other women are being tortured in Homiel-based colony Nr 4.

The Investigative Committee will not initiate cases for violence on the part of law enforcement officers.

The interrogation lasted 36 hours.

22-year-old Vadzim Hurman has been placed in the punitive isolation ward for 50 days, human rights centre Viasna reports.