On June 30, human rights defenders recognized 8 more people as political prisoners. The total number of people recognized as political prisoners in Belarus today is 863.
The following names were added to the list of political prisoners:
Dzmitry Vialau, Andrei Siarheyeu, Aleh Stsefanovich, Andrei Latyshevich, Varvara Latyshevich, Ihar Sutyrka, Tatsiana Korsakava and Dzmitry Korsakau.
Who these people are and why human rights defenders consider their cases politically motivated, you can find out here.
The full list of all political prisoners in Belarus is here.
In total, according to human rights defenders, 863 people are currently recognized as political prisoners. Recently, their total number has not significantly increased and has even decreased, sometimes noticeably. But this is not because repression in Belarus is decreasing — it's simply that parallel to new cases of imprisonment in criminal cases, there is a process of releasing those convicted who have fully served their term. Some are also released by pardons, including through US mediation, although new prisoners are constantly being recruited in their place. Courts also sentence some to "home chemistry" (house arrest), after which the person leaves prison walls and is therefore no longer considered a prisoner.
It should also be noted that the statistics do not include all those who are imprisoned for political reasons; the actual number of Belarusian political prisoners is higher. Human rights defenders simply do not know about some of them.
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