Mikalai Autukhovich may be transferred to mass cell in detention facility

Alla Mikheeva, chief of the medical unit in pre-trial detention center #1, told this.

The doctor of the detention facility in Valadarski Street told Radio Svaboda how political prisoner Mikalai Autukhovich feels after a long hunger strike he ended two weeks ago:

“He feels better. He has put on 3 kilograms, began to eat porridges from the prison canteen. We will take analyses today and will decide whether he should be transferred to a common cell,” Alla Mikheeva told.

We remind that Mikalai Autukhovich was on protest hunger strike for three months – from April 16 to July 16. He lost more than 35 kilograms of weight during the hunger strike.

Autukhovich, Lyavonau, and Asipenka were detained on February 8, 2009. On February 18, they were charged under article 218 of the Criminal Code (intentional destruction of or damage to property of citizens). The three entrepreneurs are now in pre-trial detention center #1 in Minsk.

Human rights activists consider the detained to be political prisoners drawing attention to the fact that Autukhovich and Lyavonau were convicted before and found prisoners of conscience by the international community.