Evicted dwellers go on hunger strike in Mahilou

They protest against officials and judges who ignore their illegal eviction from flats to a dormitory.

Five residents of block of flats No. 59 in Leninskaya Street in Mahilou went on an indefinite hunger strike, protesting against the inactivity and indifference of officials. Their correspondence with the authorities lasted for more than a year, but gave no results, Euroradio reports.

The protesters sent letters to the Mahilou city executive committee, the regional executive committee, the prosecutor's office of the Mahilou region, the prosecutor general's office and Lukashenka's administration, informing them about the hunger strike.

All residents of block of flats No.59, where four generations have lived, were ordered to move to a dormitory of construction group No.12 at the beginning of 2014. A special commission declared the condition of the building critical.

The evicted people say they received documents for flats in the 1960-1970s. Construction group No.12 was looking for investors in 2007 to give the residents new flats, but it became known during a court hearing in 2009 that the building had the status of a dormitory. Officials wanted just to throw people out on the street, but they managed to defend their right to continue to live in the building.

In 2015, officials stated that the building had the status of a dormitory from the very beginning. They refer to documents relating to building No.61, the dormitory that used to stand nearby until the lyceum of the Belarusian-Russian University was built on its site. The technical passport for building No.59 in Leninskaya Street mysteriously disappeared.