Duly medical surveillance not provided in colony for Mikhail Marynich :: Charter'97 :: News

Visible signs of the stroke could be seen in the Belarusian political prisoner Mikhail Marynich still. He continues the rehabilitation treatment course in Minsk colony, where he has been transferred after the prison hospital. Former minister and ambassador was visited by his lawyer in the colony on May 20.

The lawyer was interested in how Mikhail Marynich feels after the transfer from the republican prison hospital. According to his son, Mikhail Marynich, the leader of the civil initiative “Freedom to political prisoners!”, member of the “Free Belarus”, Ihar Marynich, who talked to the lawyer, his father has signs of the stroke. He continues bodily exercises to work out the arm and leg which were partially paralyzed after the stroke. Mikhail Marynich was making the exercises in the hospital, but the doctors were supervising him more attentively. There is no daily medial supervision in the colony for Mikhail Marynich.

The administration of the colony says that the former minister would be provided all necessary assistance if needed. However, Ihar Marynich believes that it was extremely cruel his father to transfer to the colony before his complete recovery.

“It is sneering. It is impossible to get well after the stroke so soon, and especially outside the specialized hospital. In some other, specialized center, some special methods could have been used for that. As far as I know, those who have had a stroke, later go to sanatoriums for treatment,” he told to Radio Svaboda.

The lawyer told about the conditions in which Marynich is living, that “they are as good as it is possible in the colony”. According to the lawyer, Marynich hopes for an amnesty, but does not want to comment on his chances for early relase.
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