Anarchist Alyaksnadr Frantskevich denied short-term meeting with his mother

Tatsyana Frantskevich passed a 30kg parcel to her son, who serves sentence in penal colony No. 22 “Volchyi Nory”.

The woman was informed two weeks ago the colony administration banned a short-term meeting for Alyaksadr Frantskevich as a disciplinary punishment.

“Belorusski Partizan” learned it from Tatsyana Frantskevich.

“We knew two weeks ago that the son was left without a short-term meeting. I visited the colony yesterday to pass a 30kg parcel. We are waiting for a long-term meeting now. Alyaksandr will apply for a meeting on his birthday, on May 6. We plan to have a long-term meeting in May and then a short-term one in Jule,” Tatsyana Frantskevuch, the mother of political prisoner, says.

The woman admits the prison authorities do not want to soften the regime for Alyaksandr Frantskevich, who will have served half of his term in March.

Frantskevich's mother says Alyaksandr “tries to cheer up. He had a hope for a possible release earlier, but now he is getting used to the thought he will have to serve the whole sentence.”

On May 27, 2011, judge of the Zavadski district court of Minsk Zhanna Khvainitskaya sentenced Mikalai Dzyadok to 4.5 years in a minimum security penal colony, Alyaksandr Frantskevich to 3 years in a medium security penal colony and Ihar Alinevich to 8 years in a medium security penal colony. The anarchists were accused of attacking governmental and private buildings and throwing Molotov cocktails at the embassy of Russia on August 30, 2010.