Political prisoner Syarhei Kavalenka marries today

On February 17 Syarhei Kavalenka is going to contract a marriage with his common-law wife.

“Narodnaya Volya” has been informed about that by the acting head of the Corrections department S. Pratsenka. As for the hunger strike of Syarhei Kavalenka, Pratsenka added:

“He does not eat now really, but his state of health is satisfactory. No one is going to feed him forcibly, the times are different now.”

We remind that since December 22 Syarhei Kavalenka is held in the remand prison in Vitsebsk. He is charged with numerous violations of probation terms. He is serving correctional labour term at home. The activist was given a suspended sentence for hanging out a Belarusian national white-red-white flag in Vitsebsk. Kavalenka is to be tried in the Pershamaiski district court on February 21. Syarhei Kavalenka continues his hunger strike in spite force-feeding.