Political prisoner Klimau is put to hunger torture

Deputy of the Belarusian Supreme Council 13 collocation Andrei Klimau charged with a political journalistic article is starved in Mazyr high security correctional facility #20.

Mother of the imprisoned politician Hanna Piatrouna Klimava said her son had caught a cold and was suffering from constant heart pains. Nevertheless, the administration of the correctional facility #20 refuses to provide the prisoner with medical aid and claims the maladies being induced by the transfer stage (A.Klimau was transferred from an investigation isolation prison to a colony).

Moreover, political prisoner Klimau is starved in the colony in Mazyr colony. Food is taken from him: pasta, potato mash, sausage, nuts, tea.

Starving is a crime which the world community regards equal to physical or psychiatric tortures. Hanna P. Klimava deems the administration of Mazyr colony is exercising a purposeful policy of annihilation of the politician charged with rough criticism of the head of the ruling regime. The sick politician cannot have a cup of hot tea when it’s cold, damp and sleety outside.

Even those who have nothing to do with medicine know: proper food is necessary for a sick person. Having taken the food that belongs to Klimau, the administration of the colony deliberately decreases his ration, and hence is nearly attempting to kill him.

Correctional facility is abbreviated to CF. It seems like the CF of Mazyr is the organization which is ruled by the people who exercise destruction instead of reeducation of prisoners, which makes a CF a Crushing Facility of the Punishment exercising department of the Home Ministry.

The policy of starving prisoners was popular in Stalin’s times. And, according to the officials, the restoration of the Stalin’s Line is one of the major interior policies of the state.