Mirzayanau’s grandma visits penal colony: It’s like 1941!

Relatives of Fyodar Mirzayana visited the political prisoner in the penal colony “Volchy Nory”. Even his 80-year-old grandmother came for a long-term meeting in the prison.

“We worried how the mother would take this trip. She insisted she must go: she it could be the last time to see her grandson,” Lyudmila Mirzayanava told Belsat journalist after leaving the colony. The mother of the political prisoner says the 80-year-old woman was shocked by what she saw: “When she saw the prison fence, heard patrol dogs barking, she recollected the year 1941, when Nazi troops occupied her native village near Klyotsk under the same barking.”

Lyudmila Mirzayanava says Fryodar became stronger and even taller. He is confident and quiet and says he will not apply for a pardon, though the prison authorities insist on it. Fyodar Mirzayanau said he had been transferred from a quarantine cell to the second squad, where Alyaksandr Frantskevich, convicted in the case of anarchists, serves his sentence.

“Fyodar asks to send greetings and thanks to everyone supporting him: independent journalists and editorial offices, which send newspapers to him, his fellow students and relatives of other political prisoners, who write letters to him and send him parcels, Alena Likhavid, for example, asked us to pass Fyodar a grilled chicken from her. This signs of solidarity are very important for him,” Lyudmila Mirzayanava says.

The woman says that having visited the colony and heard her son’s stories about prison life, she called the penal colony “LU zone”, a zone where views are being broken. “My son will pass it. He has stronger views than the people who try to break him,” the mother of the political prisoner is convinced.

You can write letter to Fyodar Mirzayanau at the address; penal colony 22 “Volchy Nory”, 225295, the Brest region, the Ivatsevichy district, station Damanava, squad 2.