The total isolation, which was created by the administration of penal colony No. 9 (Horki) with respect to Mikhail Zhamchuzhny, was finally broken: a letter from a political prisoner was received by human rights activist Tatyana Revyako.

Human rights activists became aware of the beating of political prisoner, the founder of the human rights organization "Platform Innovation" Mikhail Zhamchuzhny in Horki penal colony No. 9. On January 24, the guards left the man unattended in the corridor of the sanitation unit, where another convict severely beat him.

Viciebsk region took the last place in the rating of enterprising regions, in which the largest number of individual entrepreneurs per 1 thousand inhabitants. But Viciebsk individual entrepreneurs earn more than others on agriculture. The study conducted the Kufar announcement site on the basis of official statistics and own data.

As it became known to the human rights center "Viasna", on November 16, the five-day term of imprisonment in the ShIZO of the political prisoner Mikhail Zhamchuzhny expired. This is the 11th penalty, which the convict received from the beginning of August this year from the administration of the colony number 9 (Horki). Probably, now the next one will be delivered.

Information agency "New Platform Innovation" ("Platform") appealed to the General Prosecutor's Office with a request to react to the facts of pressure, which, to the best of the organization's knowledge, are being rendered to the political prisoner Mikhail Zhamchuzhny by the administration of the colony No. 9 in Horki. This was announced at a press conference on August 15 in Minsk by the director of the Platform, Andrei Bondarenko.

A resident of Viciebsk, Oksana Isakova, says her son Viktor Seleznev and his cousin Alexander Kudryavtsev, who are serving their sentence in Škłoŭ colony No. 17, are in danger. The woman worries that their life is under threat. According to her, convicts demand a meeting with the prosecutor, but they are not given such a possibility.

The commander of the detachment of Russian Nazis Alexei Milchakov who fought against Ukraine at the Donbass, now coached fighting skills of Belarusian citizens and acquire property in the Viciebsk region.

According to the activist Igor Postnov, at a visiting session of the court of the Oktyabrsky district of Mahiloŭ Sergei Ryzhov was sentenced to three years in prison. Before that the prisoner was serving his sentence in a penal colony.

The democratic forces of Belarus issued a statement in defense of Alexei Milyukov-Zhelnov, son of a prominent independent blogger who is serving a sentence in the "chemistry" in Navapołacak, and which the authorities are charged with violation of the punishment, because of what may be in the 3 years to deprive him of his liberty.

Through treatment Viciebsk doctor Igor Postnov in Mahiloŭ region prosecutor's office, became known some details of prison life Sergey Ryzhov, the challenger for the presidency in the 2010 elections. Condemned in accordance with Paragraph 1 of Article 167 and Part 1 of Article 339 of the Criminal Code (sexual violence and hooliganism) politician serving his sentence in Mahiloŭ penal colony #15.

Individual entrepreneurs have developed a list of demands to the Belarusian authorities and agree on the date of the warning strike. This was told the leader of the entrepreneurs' movement from Viciebsk Irina Yaskevich:

Tatiana Karatkevich August 17, held a series of meetings with voters. Presidential contender to tour the eastern city of Belarus. She visited Mahiloŭ, Škłoŭ, and then Vorša.