On December 23, human rights defenders recognized 10 more people as political prisoners. The total number of people currently recognized as political prisoners in Belarus is 1135.
The following names were added to the list of political prisoners:
Andrei Prykhodzko, Andrei Asipenka, Mikalai Bunievich, Vital Kanurkin, Ruslan Baranchuk, Mikalai Halaliuk, Uladzimir Melikaeu, Dzmitry Babitski, Yahor Krauchenia, Andrei Yushkevich.
You can find out who these people are and why human rights defenders consider their cases politically motivated here.
The list of all political prisoners in Belarus is here.
In total, according to human rights defenders, 1135 people are currently recognized as political prisoners. Recently, their total number has not significantly increased and sometimes even decreases. 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 sentences. Some are also released on pardons, although new prisoners are constantly taken in their place. Also, courts sentence some to "home chemistry" (house arrest), after which the person leaves prison walls and is no longer considered a prisoner.
It should also be noted that the statistics do not include everyone who is imprisoned for political reasons; the real number of Belarusian political prisoners is higher. Human rights defenders simply know nothing about some of them.
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