Alyaksandr Atroshchankau: I admire those coming out to protest

The political prisoner told this to his wife, who visited him in prison.

Daria Korsak, the wife of the convicted journalist, visited her husband in penal colony Vitba 3 (the Vitsebsk district). She was allowed to stay three days with her husband – from July 23 to July 26.

“Sasha is courageous as usual. He does not lose the sense of humour. He said he and I were in a cheap hotel with good security,” Daria told charter97.org. “He looks thin, he’s lost 15 kilogrammes. He sent greetings to everyone and said he admired the people coming out to protest every Wednesday.”

“He feels he will not be freed soon,” the wife of Andrei Sannikov’s spokesman says. “He stands against trade in political prisoners and against release of prisoners at any cost.”

“These were my best three days for the last seven months. And I spent them in prison,” Daria sadly.

We remind that Alyaksandr Atroshchankau, the spokesman for presidential candidate Andrei Sannikov, was given four years in the medium security penal colony on a trumped-up accusation of participating in the so called mass disorders, when scores of thousands of Belarusians held peaceful protests on December 19 against the flawed presidential elections. Amnesty International considers the activist a prisoner of conscience.