Campaign of solidarity with Ihar Alinevich
2- 9.12.2014, 17:17
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Make a picture with a portrait of a political prisoner for social networks or write a letter to prison to a new address.
Activists of the United Civil Party, journalists and other concerned Belarusians have launched a marathon of support to a political prisoner Ihar Alinevich, who is experiencing pressure from the administration of Vitsebsk penal colony. He had spent 30 days in a punishment isolation cell, he was not informed about the death of his grandmother and he was allowed to make only one phone call in half a year.
“Together we can support Ihar Alinevich and his family. Ability to show solidarity is an indicator of the climate in the society and its institutions, of its morals, dignity.
To support the person fighting against the system, fighting for his dignity even in prison is a matter of honour for each one of us,” activists say.
A film director Volha Mikalaichyk, a coordinator of the initiative “For saving of Kurapaty memorial” Hanna Shaputska, Ales Basatsky and others have already taken part in the campaign.
Those who want to support Ihar, can either make a picture with his portrait in hands, or write a letter to him to the address: 211300, Vitsebsk region, Vitsebsk district, Vitsba, PK #3, to Alinevich Ihar Uladzimiravich.
We remind that on May 27, 2011 the judge of Zavadski district of Minsk Zhanna Khvajnitskaya sentenced Ihar Alinevich to 8 years of deprivation of freedom in a colony with a reinforced regime. Now he is serving a sentence in Navapolatsk colony #10, ill-famed for its bad conditions. He had been charged with organizing an anti-war meeting against Russian-Belarusian military exercises and in arson of a car belonging to the Russian embassy in Belarus, though the court didn’t proved anything except participation in the meeting. On November 28 the activist was illegally kidnapped in Moscow, however a detention report of a KGB officer was read out at the court session. The activist was told to be arrested near the village of Redzki, Vitsebsk region, near the border of Russia.
