Statkevich has heart problems
11- 28.04.2011, 9:57
Maryna Adamovich thinks her husband has faced heart problems after a long hungry strike.
Maryna Adamovich, the wife of Mikalai Statkevich, received two letters from her husband on April 27.
“MIkalai writes he still does not know a trial date. He learned from my letter that trial dates were set for some people. He thought he would be tried first. The rest of the letter is crossed out by censorship. He apparently has problems with heart. He writes he recovers little by little, but had to stop trainings because the heart cannot cope with muscle mass recovering. I think Mikalai would not have stopped training without a reason. He is likely to have faced heart problems after his hunger strike,” Maryna Adamovich says.
Before receiving these two letter, Maryna did not have messages from he husband for three weeks, though she says he writes three or four letters per week. The latest letter was focused on household and everyday matters, maybe for this reason it was allowed by censorship.
Mikalai Statkevich had been on hunger strike in the KGB jail since his arrest on December 19, 2010 till January 12, 2011. Presidential candidate Mikalai Statkevich stopped hunger strike in the evening of January 12. A three-week hunger strike aggravated with “an injury” (it is still unknown about what injury he wrote to his wife) was very difficult for him.
Later, Mikalai Statkevich faced vision problems and Maryna Adamovich had to hand over glasses to him.
Statkevich took part in a demonstration on October and Independence Squares on December 19, 2010. After a brutal dispersal of the rally, he was blocked by riot police in a taxi and detained. A KGB prisoner, her may face up to 15 years in prison for organizing mass disorders. Amnesty International recognized his a prisoner of conscience.
Criminal cases against Mikalai Statkevich, Dzmitry Us, Andrei Paznyak, Alyaksandr Klaskouski, Alyaksandr Kvyatkevich, Artsyom Hrybkou, and Dzmitry Bulanau will be heard by judge Lyudmila Hrachova in the Leninski district court of Minsk.
