Political Prisoner Alyaksandr Vasilyeu Transferred to Prison Hospital :: Charter'97 :: News

Alyaksandr Vasilyeu, Belarusian political prisoner, was transferred from Vorsha colony of medium security number 8 to a republican prison hospital in Apanski Street in Minsk. This information was received from Pavel Marynich, leader of the civil initiative “Freedom to political prisoners!”, whose father is at the moment placed to the same hospital for a medical check-up. It is still unknown what it the trouble with A.Vasilyeu’s health.

As we have informed, in March another political prisoner, former Minister of Foreign Economic Relations, Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary Ambassador of Belarus Mikhail Marynich, a 65-year-old politician was transferred to that hospital after a stroke in the colony.

On September 7, 2004 the court of the Lenin district of Hrodna found chairman of National Strike Committee of Vendors, Valery Levaneuski and Alyaksandr Vasilyeu, his deputy, guilty of public slander of Belarusian President connected with a grave crime (Article 368 Part 2 of the Criminal Code), and sentenced them to two years of imprisonment of the minimum-security colony. It was written in the verdict that the sentence “Come and say that you are against somebody’s skiing in Austria at your expense”, printed in leaflets, contains insult of honor and dignity of Aliaksandr Lukashenka.

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