Lawyer visited Valery Levaneuski in prison :: Charter'97 :: News

June 15, lawyer from Grodna Aliaxandar Biarylau visited Valery Levaneuski in the Ivatsevichy reformatory. The lawyer told some details about his client’s hunger strike. “He feels fine. He said that everything was good, that he stopped the hunger strike successfully. There are some complaints on the heart, but this seems to be normal for all the inmates of the reformatory. He said that probably he would be sent to the republic prison hospital for medical examination,” - Aliaxandar Biarylau told Radio Liberty.

According to the lawyer, Valery Levaneuski has grown thin, but he hasn’t lost courage and cheerful spirits. The prisoner said lack of food was reimbursed by the fresh air, because the reformatory is surrounded by dense forest, so the air is extremely pure.

What are the achievements of Valery Levaneuski’s hunger strike?

The lawyer said that in the result of the hunger strike the Head of the Brest Penalty Executions Committee and the Vice Chairperson of the Committee from Minsk came to Levaneuski with a special visit. And from the lawyer’s point of view this is a significant victory. Nevertheless, a great deal of Levaneuski’s claims on the reformatory administration is still in force. The claims concern the order of receiving and dispatching the correspondence. Valery Levaneuski deems the prisoners’ rights for correspondence are restricted rigorously. For example, during one year of imprisonment V. Levaneuski has mailed approximately one hundred letters and complaints; according to him, however, the addressees received only 10 percent of the correspondence. Thus, the entrepreneurs’ leader insists on improving the system of registration for the prisoners’ complaints and replies to these complaints. Since his demands have not been met, he reserves the right to resume the hunger strike.

Grodna entrepreneurs’ leader Valery Levaneuski was sentenced to a two-year imprisonment for slandering Aliaxandar Lukashenka. Amnesty International announced him the prisoner of consciousness.
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