Illya Vasilevich: I will not write petitions

Illya Vasilevich, a political prisoner, has phoned from Mahilyou colony for the first time.

Previously he had always been asking to send him many books, vocabularies, and now his mother Tamara is very worried that he has probably finished the annual limit of books already.

“Now neither text-books nor other books could be sent to him. We did not know all the rules of the prison. We should have register book parcels as a gift to the colony, and then not all books would be registered as his books. And imagine, he has taken up the quota for a year!

We had 10 minutes for conversation, we have ben snatching the mobile phone from each other, and we could not talk properly. Illya has told us, however, that he is not going to write any petitions for pardon,” the mother of the political prisoner told Radio Svaboda.