Alinevich isolated in penal colony

The authorities of penal colony No. 10 in Navapolatsk continue to delay letters of political prisoner Ihar Alinevich.

Charter97.org has learnt it from the activist's mother, Valyantina Alinevich.

“My son phoned on March 8 to congratulate me, but we didn't speak, because he was allowed to make a call only to the landline phone. We rarely speak on the phone. The last conversation was on December 31. They earlier warned us about a telephone call, but this time they didn't,” the political prisoner's mother said.

The woman added that Ihar Alinevich talked to his father, but the conversation was very short.

“Ihar asked if I received a postcard he had sent me before the holiday. It was delivered only on March 11. My son said he wrote us about the phone call, but his letters were delayed and we didn't know it. He said he had not had letters for 20 days, though we wrote every week. I think it is a special type of mockery practiced by prison staff,” Valyantina Alinevich says.

Judge of Minsk's Zavadski district court Zhanna Khvainitskaya senteced Ihar Alinevich to 8 years in a medium security penal colony on May 27, 2011. He serves his term in penal colony No. 10 in Navapolatsk. Mikalai Dzyadok, Alyaksandr Frantskevich and he were accused of organising a procession near the Ministry of Defence building, carrying out attacks on Shangri La casino and a detention centre in Akrestin Street and setting fire to the door of a Belarusbank office.