Iryna, wife of political prisoner and former presidential candidate Alyaksandr Kazulin, died on 23 February, at 7.40 Minsk time. The 48-year-old woman had a cancer. She felt bad and died in emergency ambulance on the way to hospital…

God rest Iryna Kazulina’s soul. 

Today Alyaksandr Zdzvizhkou, a political prisoner, has been released under the Supreme Court decision.

Today a consideration of case upon cassational appeal of the former deputy editor-in-chief of Zhoda newspaper Alyaksandr Zdzvizhkou has taken place in the Supreme Court of Belarus. Dzvizhkou had been sentenced to three years of imprisonment for publishing the Prophet Mohammed cartoons.

Considering the exceptional circumstances (the journalist has an elderly mother), the Supreme Court altered the decision of Minsk city court, and commuted the sentence from three years to three months of imprisonment. As said by lawyer Maya Alyaksandrava, today Zdzvizhkou is to be released.

The activist of movement “For Freedom” Eduard Dzmukhovskiy got a summon according to which he has to come for interrogation in local KGB office.
Officers of KGB were waiting for him near his house and gave him the summons, made him to sign for it. What the reason of his interrogation is he doesn’t know.

- What are your feelings after the release?
- Very nice, I’m ready to continue the fight! The time in prison only gave me more power to resist the authorities.
- So that arrest didn’t frighten you, didn’t make you step back.
- Of course a human being is sometimes afraid of something. But I try not to give up.

Political prisoner Andrei Klimau has been released and is to arrive in Minsk on 16 February morning. Wife of political prisoner Tatsyana Klimava said it to the Charter’97 press center. “Andrei phoned home. Our daughter spoke to him. He said he was being guarded to Kalinkavichy from the Mazyr colony. There he will take a train and arrive in Minsk in the morning on 16 February. He didn’t manage to say anything more,” Tatsyana Klimava said.

Iryna Kazulina: “My husband was offered release at cost of dishonourable escape from the country”
“I would like to listen to the conditions of release offered by Lukashenka to Alyaksandr. The things said by his messenger to us were unacceptable. It would be a dishonourable flight from the country,” the open letter of the wife of the former candidate for presidency Alyaksandr Kazulin, Iryna Kazulina, published at the web site of the politician.

The first session of the Public Commission on defence of youth activist Andrei Kim, arrested at the entrepreneurs’ rally on 21 January, took place in Minsk on 4 February.
A criminal case on the article 364 of the Criminal Code (violence or threat of violence against a militia officer to impede lawful activity) was initiated against the 21-year-old activist of the youth campaign “Initiative.” The young man faces up to 6 years of imprisonment.

It has been told by the activist’s mother Tatsyana at the meeting of the steering committee of the public commission “Free Andrei Kim”. The charges have been presented for violation of the Article 364 of the Criminal Code (inflicting injury to a policemen in the line of duty). The punishment for that is up to 6 year of imprisoement.