Belarusian political prisoner Aleh Surhan was transferred to “one of harshest detention places”

The 47-year-old Vitsebsk opposition activist has been transferred for serving the sentence to the correctional colony of special regime Number 13 of Hlybokae Vitsebsk region.

As said by co-heads of the organizing committee on creating the Belarusian Christian Democracy party Paval Sevyarynets, news about his transfer were received by Surhan’s relatives on March 2, when they brought a parcel to the remind prison number 2 of Vitsebsk to him, BelaPAN informs.

“It should be noted that Hlybokae colony of special regime number 13 is considered one of the harshest places of incarceration in Belarus,” Sevyarynets added.

We remind that that Aleh Surhan, detained for hanging out a national white-red-white flag, was sentenced to six months in jail on February 19 by Kastrychnitski court of Vitsebsk for alleged resistance to police. Besides, he is to pay Br 2.5 mln for moral damage to policeman Syarhei Dudkevich.

The incident related to the case took place on September 3, 2009. Aleh Surhan and his younger brother Taras were detained at a bus stop near Vitsebsk Medical University, where a white-red-white flag was hung out.

The report, drawn up in the Kastrychnitski district police department, said Aleh was accused of hanging out a flag. But later this report disappeared. A new report says Aleh Surhan was drunk in public, used obscene language and bit a militiaman’s finger during the detention.

Surhan states he was tortured in the police department, which was recorded during medical examination. The oppositionist had bruises on his faces after detention in the police department.