Political prisoner Alijenievich is employed at woodworks at penal colony

Political prisoner Ihar Alijenievich in the penal colony Vitba-3 got a job that has been typical for prisoners since Soviet times.

His father Uladzimir Alijenievich does not yet know exactly what his son does. Alijenievich has been transferred to the Vitba-3 colony only in July, Radio Svaboda reports.

“He does something at woodworks, but I do not know what exactly. We have not yet had either a long, or short meeting. At the first short meeting in the colony we will ask for more details about what he does. So far I know that he works with wood”, - Uladzimir Alijenievich says.

According to Uladzimir Alijenievich, in the colony near Viciebsk his son has already been issued a phone card, and he can phone home, albeit not often, but regularly. In the colony in Navapolatsk, where Ihar Alijenievich spent over 3 years, he was actually deprived of such possibility. Also letters do come from the political prisoner on a regular basis.

An anarchist movement activist Ihar Alijenievich was sentenced to 8 years in prison under charges of hooliganism against official buildings. He did not plead guilty and refused to write a plea for pardon.