Mother of political prisoner Siargey Skrabets tells about her son’s hunger strike :: Charter'97 :: News

Mother of Siargey Skrabets visited her son in the Brest investigative isolation ward yesterday. She deems it would be reasonable to let him go home in order to stop the hunger strike. As Radio Liberty reports, this is the first time when Nina Skrabets came to Brest to visit he son Siargey who has been kept in the local investigative isolation ward for 2 months already and has been hunger-striking all this time. Nina Skrabets says her son refrains from ceasing the hunger strike. Under such circumstances the mother of the detained oppositional politician supposes the best way now is to exonerate her son with a recognizance not to leave:

- In my personal view, with a humane treatment he would have been let go home right now. And the State doesn’t need him to stop the hunger strike. We would help him out of the hunger strike. Is he such an atrocious culprit able to escape or commit something? Why not let him go home, we would render him healthier - and you are welcome to question him afterwards in Minsk, in Brest. He will always arrive. He has never hidden from anyone.