Syarhei Skrabets Does Not Exclude that Kazulin was Forced to Finish Hunger Strike :: Charter'97 :: News

A former political prisoner Syarhei Skrabets does not exclude that Alyaksandr Kazulin has been forced to finish the hunger strike. He underlines that on December 11 Kazulin’s wife hasn’t been allowed not only to see her husband, but even to speak on the phone with him. “Could there be any problems could be if Kazulin had really written a statement that he finishes the hunger strike?” Syarhei Skrabets noted in an interview to the UCP press-service. “Just give him one minute to confirm to his wife on the phone: “Everything is alright, I am finishing the hunger strike”. Why all this tension? Who needs this circus?”

Syarhei Skrabets thinks it is suspicious the coincidence of the two events: prohibition to meet with her husband for Iryna Kazulina, and reports of the Internal Affairs Ministry on December 11 that Kazulin stops the hunger strike. In the day before this news was received, when Iryna Kazulina returned from the colony, she called the administration of the colony to find out whether her husband had taken any decision. But since 4 p.m. nobody fro the administration representatives answered the phone. An officer answered to Iryna that he knows nothing. Later the Interior Ministry stated that Kazulin has finished the hunger strike”.

Syarhei Skrabets also underlines that the administration of the colony promised to inform the lawyer and allow a meeting with the prisoner when Kazulin stops the hunger strike. “The lawyer knows nothing,” Syarhei Skrabets said. “If Kazulin is isolated, it is clear that something is going on behind the thick walls of the colony, where nobody can reach. I think that Kazulin’s health could have deteriorated, and they could force him to stop the hunger strike”.

Syarhei Skrabets does not exclude that Kazulin could have been taken to the Republican prison hospital in Minsk. “Why are they prohibiting talking to him, to meet with him? We should raise the alarm,” believes the former prisoner of the “Vitsba-3” colony.

It is worth mentioning that on December 11 Iryna Kazulina met with the head of the colony Vitaly Agnistsikau. As we have informed, after 30 days of Kazulin’s hunger strike he went on a holiday. After 20 days he returned to work.