Syarhei Kavalenka being force-fed with porridge

He receives baby food through a feeding tube.

A doctor of Vitba-3 penitentiary told political prisoner's wife, Alena Kavalyova, the state of her husband is critical, but stable. His body temperature is still low, “Nasha Niva” newspaper reports.

He began to receive porridge. Kavalenka has been fed with Bellakt infant formula since March 31.

He also receives parenteral nutrition (glucose, amino acids and saline solution) through a catheter placed into a vein.

The CCP-BPF party activist is tied to his bed because he refuses to end his hunger strike.

According to Alena, her husband agree to eat at a civilian hospital, but not in prison.

Doctors do not allow the wife of the political prisoner to see him. She learns news about Kavalenka from doctors.

Syarhei Kavalenka is at a psychiatric hospital at Vitba- 3 penal colony, where he was transferred from the KGB jail in Minsk. Kavalenka has been on hunger strike since February 19. before, he had a 30-day hunger strike in a detention centre and was forced to stop it. He was sentenced to two years and a month in a penal colony for a probation violation. Earlier, he got a 3-year suspended sentence for hanging out a national white-red-white flag on a Christmas tree in Vitebsk on January 7, 2010.