Volha Bandarenka: Zmitser had 10 minutes to get ready for transportation

Volha, the political prisoner’s wife, has told Euroradio about Zmitser Bandarenka’s letters.

- Zmitser has been transferred to prison. Have you managed to find out how it happened?

- I received two letters in the morning. He wrote that he had 10 minutes to get ready for the transportation at 10 a.m. on August 31. It happened suddenly and quickly.

- Did Zmitser describe his health condition after the transportation? It must have been difficult.

- He wrote that he had been given an injection of a painkiller. He was lying on his side. Despite the injection, the road was bad and his back aches now. He wrote the letter as soon as he arrived at the colony. He thought it would have been worse. It was bad but not as bad as he had expected.

- Are you going to meet your husband soon?

- He has been quarantined so I am not likely to receive permission to meet him. I want the lawyer to go first because they should allow the lawyer to meet him.

- What had the doctors told you before Zmitser was sent back to prison?

- They said that he would receive the same medical assistance in prison so there was no need for him to stay.

- Do you know how long he will be quarantined?

- I don’t. Nobody knows. The only thing I know about is that his thorax rupture has started aching – he has a few ruptures. He felt worse 10 days after the transportation and his right arm aches. The neurologist examined him and said: “What do you except?? You have ruptures everywhere. What can we do now?”. That’s it… It is not very good.