Ales Bialiatski Urges For Solidarity With Political Prisoner Kondrus

The activists have already forwarded the first solidarity postcards for the political prisoner to the remand prison.

Chairman of the human rights center “Viasna” has sent a postcard to Uladzimir Kondrus and urges everyone to show their support to the political prisoner who is kept in the pre-trial detention center #1 in Valadarski Street in Minsk. He has just started to emerge from a hunger strike, informs the HR center “Viasna”.

“Political prisoner Uladzimir Kondrus stays in the prison hospital now, as he has serious health issues after the hunger strike. Until recently, no one knew about his arrest for over a month and a half, he received no information from freedom and had no moral support whatsoever. So I am urging all unindifferent people to write just a few words to Uladzimir Kondrus, to show their solidarity with him. Uladzimir Kondrus got into a trouble and our moral obligation is to help him,” – Ales Bialiatski has said.

The activists of the organization’s voluntary service have already forwarded the first solidarity postcards to Uladzimir Kondrus. Everyone who cares about this man’s destiny can do the same.

Postcards and letters to be sent to the following address:

Remand Prison #1, Valadarski Street, 2, 220030 Minsk, Belarus

We remind, 39-year-old inhabitant of the settlement of Rudzensk Uladzimir Kondrus has been under guard since June 14 in the framework of the preliminary investigation of the criminal case. He is charged under Article 293 of the Criminal Code “mass riots”. 49 people were sentenced under this article after the events of December 19, 2010, many of them were imprisoned for different terms.

For the time of the investigation, Uladzimir Kondrus will stay in the remand prison #1 in Minsk, where he was on a hunger strike as a protest against his arrest, in connection with which his health condition deteriorated. Uladzimir’s parents successfully insisted on his transfer to the prison hospital, which is located in the very same building that the remand prison #1.