Kavalenka faces demands to write an application for ending hunger strike

A lawyer visited hunger striker Syarhei Kavalenka in Vitba-3 penitentiary on March 29.

“There's no information about results. The prison waits for permission to begin force-feeding of Kavalenka. It's unknown yet if permission has been received,” Alena Kavalenka, political prisoner's wife, told Radio Svaboda.

The mother of Kavelenka, Lidzia, had a meeting with a doctor from the psychiatric hospital yesterday. She says her son weights about 49 kg and did not want to stop his hunger strike. “They demand that my son write an application to end the hunger strike and refuse to provide medical care to him,” Lidzia Kavalenka says.

Syarhei Kavalenka has been on hunger strike since December 2011 with a 20-day break. The activist of the CCH-BPF party protests against the sentencing to 2 years and 1 month in prison for violation of probation. He was given a suspended sentence for hanging out a national white-red-white flag on a Christmas Tree in Vitsebsk.