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.

Połacak began to delay the payment of pensions to bank cards. Thus, Priorbank delayed the payment of a pension for two days. Pensioners, who received a pension on the 7th, received only the 9th in August. Bank employees say that the Połacak Department of Labor, Employment and Social Protection did not provide lists for the payment of pensions.

About the fact that the head of the Vorša district executive committee appointed Alexander Poznyak, the official website of Alexander Lukashenko. The fate of his predecessor Leonid Penkovsky is not specified. Penkovsky worked in office less than three months.

The fact that the political prisoner Mikhail Zhamchuzhny is in the quarantine of the corrective colony No. 9 (Horki, Mahiloŭ region), Viciebsk human rights activists learned from the short letter they received the other day. This is the third corrective colony in which one has to serve a prisoner of conscience.

The picket against the exercise "West-2017" was to take place on July 15 at 12 o'clock in the Park of Culture and Recreation of Railway Workers of Viciebsk in the central stage area – in a place specially designated by the City Hall for mass events.

On July 3, around 5:00 pm in Lepiel, near the beach on Lepiel Lake, an 11-year-old boy was showered with sand. The schoolboy came on vacation to his grandmother and together with two peers left to play on the city beach. Children dug in a sandy cliff hole and climbed there. Suddenly, the ground collapsed and completely buried one of the boys.

In order to optimize the structure of the penitentiary system of the Ministry of Internal Affairs in Navapołacak, the medical and labor dispensary No. 8 is liquidated and a correctional colony No. 1 is created on its base. The corresponding decree No. 223 was published on the National Legal Internet Portal.

In the spring of 2017, many civil society activists, journalists, human rights activists faced detentions and arrests. Taking the opportunity, we decided to find out about the temporary detention facilities (IVS) of the Vitebsk region and to make a series of materials about the living conditions of people in these institutions. In the next part of our cycle, Viktor Stukov tells about his experience in the IVS.

During the celebration of the City Day in Viciebsk, a car with a portrait of Joseph Stalin drove along the streets. Celebrations take place in honor of the 1,043th anniversary of the first mention of Viciebsk in the annals.

The best way to defend their rights – to send away those who prevents to do it. So says the leader of "Young Front" Źmicier Dashkevich, who, we recall, the prize for "freedom of thought" was presented on 17 June.

We continue to acquaint readers with the conditions of serving punishment in the temporary detention facilities of the Viciebsk region. Vasily Beresnev, a human rights activist, a member of the BHC told us about how he was sitting in Vorša.

Inspired by the idea of human rights activist Pavel Levinov, who went to the temporary detention center in Viciebsk with a document from the BHC that during the detention he would monitor the conditions in the detention center, Viciebsk Spring decided to make his own monitoring. Fortunately after the mass arrests of activists in the spring specifically to sit on the "day" for this is not necessary.