Maryna Adamovich: Pressure on Statkevich increased

In Mahilyou prison Nr 4 pressure on the former presidential candidate, political prisoner Mikalai Statkevich was increased.

Such a conclusion has been made by the wife of the politician Maryna Adamovich after she read the recent letters from the politician, Radio Racyja informs.

She was put on the alert by one phrase from the latest letter.

“Fault”-finding has started recently again.” He writes the word “faults” in quotes. It is probably a key phrase. He writes that he had come through it in Shklou already, so he is not impressed by that. Just a remembrance about Shklou makes me writhe. The things happening there could be characterized by the phrase I read on the web. Some of his addressees published a letter from Mikalai: “They have tried out all kind of methods [against me], except for insect powder.”

As said by Maryna Adamovich, it is very disturbing news, however predictable. “A number of events make the authorities and the administrations of the prison respond nervously. It is a promised amnesty, though Mikalai Statkevich had said explicitly that he would not be included in it. It is futile and ineffective to lay hopes on the amnesty today. It is self-deluding for both Belarusians and Europeans. Waiting starts again, pressure [on Belarus] is decreased, and demands are eased. And besides the term is nearing when according to the Penal Code, a possibility of transferring Statkevich from prison to minimum security facility should be considered, and it could be one of the reasons of the pressure,” Maryna Adamovich believes.