Why a Person with a Disability in a Penal Colony Is Even More Vulnerable
We continue cooperating with independent media outlets that write about the rights of prisoners in Belarus. This time, Vasili Zavadski...
Author: Васіль Завадскі
Found 38 publications.
The Problem of Low Social Status Among Prisoners in Belarusian Prisons in the Context of Universally Recognized Human Rights and National Legislation
Stratification is a phenomenon that is largely biological, characteristic not only of humans but also of many groups of living...
Caste Systems in Prisons. International Experience. What Can Be Applied to Belarus?
Places of deprivation of liberty (PDL) are by nature closed institutions, located far from the public eye, strictly controlled, and...
Ensuring the Right to Health Protection for Prisoners in Belarus
The team of the organization “Doctors for Truth and Justice” organized an expert study on the issue of prisoners’ right...
Testimony of an LGBTQ+ Woman about Imprisonment in Belarus
Alesya is 38. She was born and has lived her entire life in a regional city. Around the age of...
A Psychologist in a Belarusian Prison: Support or a Tool of Pressure?
July 22 is marked as Psychologist’s Day in Belarus. After the events of 2020, when we speak about the role...
An Inside Look: Conditions for Women Held in Punishment Cells (SHIZO) in Belarusian Penal Colonies
Natalia Dulina, a former political prisoner and associate professor of the Italian language department at MSLU, shared her experience of...
10 Things You Should Not Say to Someone Who Has Served a Prison Sentence
Volha Vialichka, psychologist 1. “It’s your own fault that you ended up there.” Such words devalue the pain and suffering...
Women Behind Bars — an Alarming Barometer of Society
The situation of imprisoned women in the country’s penitentiary system remains extremely difficult. As emphasized by Vasili Zavadski, a physician...
A Prison That Does Not Let Go: How Formerly Imprisoned Women Live with the Echo of the Past
For many women who have experienced imprisonment, release from prison does not mean the end of suffering. On the contrary,...