Iryna Kazulina Visited Penal Jurisdiction Department :: Charter'97 :: News

A wife of the former candidate for presidency in Belarus, a political prisoner Alyaksandr Kazulin, Iryna Kazulina, a former political prisoner Syarhei Skrabets and the chairperson of the Belarusian Helsinki Committee Tatsyana Protska visited the penal Jurisdiction Department of the Interior Ministry f Belarus. The wife of the political prisoner was received by the first deputy head of the Penal Jurisdiction Department Yury Barynkou. The official gave Iryna Kazulina a permission to send food parcel to Vitsebsk colony. He will need special food after a long hunger strike, if he decides to stop the fast. The political prisoner continues the hunger strike for the 43rd day. For the time of detention the former candidate for presidency lost 38 kg. The major demand of the hunger striker is t consider the situation in Belarus in the UN Security Council.

Iryna Kazulina also requested the deputy head of the Penal jurisdiction department to present building materials to the colony. Professor Kazulin is organizing a library in the colony. In his letters he writes that the library at least offers some distraction from monotonous everyday life. But a little renovation is needed in the premises. For instance, he asks to send welding electrodes and weather strips.

The family has already brought building materials for renovation. Some of them where accepted by the administration of the colony, and some not. That is why Iryna Kazulina had to ask the higher officials of the Penal jurisdiction department for permission to bring some things to the colony. However the representatives of the Penal jurisdiction department hasn’t reacted to this request of Kazulin’s family.