Health and life of arrested Tatiana Novikova are under threat

Arrested activist of the anti-nuclear campaign cannot survive without the constant use of special medicines.

According to the court, Tatyana Novikova must serve five days in the jail on Akrestin Street.

Tatyana Novikova is chronically ill, her thyroid gland is removed and she cannot live without the constant use of special medicines. Friends are worried that she may not survive five days in jail.

As Charter97.org reported, Novikova was arrested on Wednesday, together with a Russian nuclear physicist Andrei Ozharovsky. A little later, an environmentalist Irina Sukhiy and Mikhail Matskevich were also arrested. All were charged with minor disorderly conduct. All of them are activists of the anti-nuclear movement. On Wednesday they were planning to convey an appeal to the Russian embassy against signing the general contract for the construction of the Belarusian nuclear power plant.

Nevertheless, the general contract was signed during the visit of Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev to Minsk, and environmentalists found themselves imprisoned. Ozharovsky is sentenced to ten days in prison, Mackiewicz - to three. Irina Sukhiy was fined for 1.5 million rubles.