Political prisoner Jaromienak not allowed making fir tree of plastic bags

Uladzimir Jaromienak told about the conditions in the jail in Baranavichy.

The lawyer met the Young Front activist Uladzimir Jaromienak in the pre-trial jail number 6 in Baranavichy. The political prisoner’s wife Valancina told shared with Radio Svaboda the latest news about her husband, particlularly about the conditions in which he is currently kept.

“He looks well, cheerful. He said that at the moment there were eight people in the cell. All the people were more or less alright. He told about the fir tree that he tried to make of green plastic bags. The plastic bags were taken away”, - the political prisoner’s wife pointed out.

According to the political prisoner, the conditions in the jail in Baranavichy are better than in the jail in Valadarskaha Street in Minsk. Jaromienak will stay in Baranavichy until March. Soon after the release his wife if expected to give birth to a daughter.

We would remind that in August the court ruled to punish the youth activist Uladzimir Jaromienak with 3 months of arrest on charges with violating preventive supervision requirements.

He was one of the prisoners of the criminal caseon “mass disturbances in Minsk on 19 December 2010”. He was sentenced to three years in high security prison, but in August 2011 Jaromienak was released by Lukashenka’s pardon decree. Preventive supervision was established after him, after which he ended up in court twice.