Autukhovich Continues Dry Hunger Strike :: Charter'97 :: News

An entrepreneur Mikalay Autukhovich continues a dry hunger strike for an eighth day. To the court sessions he is accompanied by a prison doctor, www.pahonia.promedia.by reports.

On May 29 at the process Autukhovich looked weak. He is extremely thin, his face dark and hollow-cheeked. However he took an active part in the interrogation of a witness, an expert of the financial investigation department Larysa Makarevich, whose calculation of allegedly unpaid taxes have become grounds for the charges against the entrepreneur. “ I can die in a few days, that is why I will ask the questions I want,” Mikalay Autukhovich said answering one of the remarks of a judge.

As we have informed, the entrepreneur announced a hunger strike without water last Tuesday. By that time he had already abstained from food for 40 days.

A doctor of Hrodna prison, where entrepreneur is imprisoned, accompanied him to the court trial. The doctor was near the special cage all the time.

Besides, after a request of Autukhovich the judge allowed to cut Autukhovich’s hair yesterday. As the prison doctor told to the court, it is not allowed for prisoners on trial. Only convicted offenders have their hair cut. And they can only be cropped close.