Bloggers Tsyhanovich and Kabanau recognized as political prisoners

In con­nec­tion with the deten­tion as sus­pects and the pre­ven­tive mea­sures of deten­tion under Part 1 of Arti­cle 342 of the Crim­i­nal Code (orga­ni­za­tion of actions gross­ly vio­lat­ing pub­lic order), the human rights com­mu­ni­ty of Belarus has rec­og­nized blog­ger of Moz­gON YouTube chan­nel Uladz­imir Tsy­hanovich and Brest blog­ger Alyak­san­dr Kabanau as polit­i­cal pris­on­ers.

Human rights activists note that they were guid­ed in their deci­sion by pre­vi­ous­ly adopt­ed state­ments about the recog­ni­tion of polit­i­cal pris­on­ers in the “Tsikhanous­ki case”.

“Based on this, the Belaru­sian human rights activists demand that the Belaru­sian author­i­ties imme­di­ate­ly release them and stop the crim­i­nal pro­ceed­ings against them,” not­ed the defend­ers.

As of June 29, 19 polit­i­cal pris­on­ers were behind bars in Belarus.

Amnesty International calls Tsikhanouski, Babaryka, associates and bloggers prisoners of conscience

Repressions against journalists in Belarus, 2020 (chart)