Administration of Ivatsevichy Colony Denies Mass Hunger Strike of Prisoners 15:07, 30/01/2006
The administration of Ivatsevichy colony number 22 refutes information that prisoners had announced a mass hunger strike. “Nobody abstains from food, all eat. On the contrary, just try not to give them a gram of food… There is no hunger strike, and especially there is no strike of 30 prisoners,” told Alyaksandr Artyukh, a deputy head of the colony on corrective process and work with personnel.
To the question what did he meant by saying that “especially there is no strike of 30 prisoners”, the deputy head of the colony said that it was a slip of the tongue.
As we have informed, information was received that about 30 prisoners announced a hunger strike of protest against violations of their rights, and against unjustified penalties and provocations by workers and administration of the colony in a corrective colony number 22 (Ivatsevichy, Brest region). Uladzimir Levaneuski, a son of the political prisoner, a leader of the Strike Committee of Vendors Valery Levaneuski, who is serving a sentence in Ivatsevichy prison, was informed about that by a former prisoner, released recently.
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