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Valyantsina Alinevich: In the space of 100 years tormenting was mastered in our prisons

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Valyantsina Alinevich: In the space of 100 years tormenting was mastered in our prisons
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A political prisoner Ihar Alinevich has been deprived of a food parcel again, and he does not receive his mail in full.

Recently a meeting with a European Commissioner Johannes Hahn with families of political prisoners took place. Valyantsina Alinevich, the mother of a political prisoner Ihar Alinevich, told charter97.org that despite visits of European officials, the situation of her son is not improving.

- There was Ihar’s father, Uladzimer Alinevich, at the meeting. There was nothing new at the meeting. It lasted one hour. Three relatives of political prisoners were present. Each of them told about the situation with their loved ones. Not only Mr. Hahn, but all European diplomats always hold meetings with us. They have solidarity in words, but the situation with our guys is getting worse and worse. Even Putin, no matter how diabolized he is, even he leaves prisoners of Bolotnaya Square alone and lets them serve their sentences peacefully, he does not exert pressure on them as it happens to our prisoners. And it is not to mention closed prisons and extension of the prison terms which are already outrageous, -- she said.

- How is Ihar doing?

- He has been deprived of a food parcel again, that is, he was deprived in February, and next time in June, too. Taking into account the quality of the prison food, and as he is considered a malicious violator, as all political prisoners, and cannot buy food products in a shop, it could be equated to torturing by hunger.

The situation with Ihar is just a part of the entire picture with political prisoners. Everything is following past practices. These 100 years have offered experience in torturing. All cases of fault-finding are so far-fetched, petty and humiliating, that to demean oneself by discussing them means to be the same as these monsters. In fact, Ihar stays in informational isolation, that is why I know little about how he is doing.

- How often do you communicate?

- As before, in the best case he is allowed to call once a month, or even in two months.

- Does he receive mail?

- His letters and letters to him, with the exception to the correspondence with parents, are not received. Even out of 15 cards from him on the 8th of March, only 3 have been received. Letters to him are not received either. A few days ago we received a letter which was sent by him on March 27! His full sister who lives in Europe does not get letters from him at all, though he is writing to her all the time. But he understands that we cannot help him in any way why he is behind the bars, so he does not complain often, and does not upset us.

We remind that on May 27, 2011 the judge of Zavadski district of Minsk Zhana Khvajnitskaya sentenced Ihar Alinevich to 8 years’ imprisonment in a penal colony with a reinforced regime. Now he is serving the sentence in Navapolatsk colony №10, which is infamous for its bad conditions. He was charged with organizing an anti-war meeting against Russian-Belarusian military exercises and in setting a car of the Russian Embassy in Belarus on fire, thought the court could not prove anything except participation in the rally. On November 28 the activist was illegally abducted in Moscow, but in the court trial a detention report of a KGB operations officer was read out, stating that Ihar had been detained near the village of Redzki, Vitsebsk region, near the border of Russia.

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