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.

In the Viciebsk regional court on January 25, the second hearing of the criminal case of Olga Stepanova, previously convicted for the death of the child at home birth, was completed. The case was considered in closed mode. The judge of the regional court Galina Bondal announced a verdict in which Olga Stepanova was found not guilty in connection with the absence of a crime.

A meeting with media expert Pavlyuk Bykovskiy was organized by the Hłybokaje Department of the Belarusian Association of Journalists. Participation in it was received by journalists and public activists from Hłybokaje, Lepiel, Połacak and Brasłaŭ.

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.

The political prisoner Mikhail Zhamchuzhny, whose correspondence was absent for several months, finally got the opportunity to write letters to his colleagues, friends, associates and human rights activists. From a letter received by human rights activist Tatyana Revyako, it became known that Mikhail Zhamchuzhny from January 6 was sent for one month to a chamber-type room (PKT).