Eights acts drawn up against Mikalai Statkevich within a week

The political prisoner is deprived of food parcels, short meetings, and served three days in a punishment cell, and yesterday he was placed for two months in a Ward-type Room.

His wife Maryna Adamovich informs, the politician's site reports.

–On March 24 Mikalai Statkevich wrote a statement renouncing illegal work on self-service. All prisoners must do this work in an alternating sequence. The working period should not exceed two hours a day. With respect to Mikalai these norms in both duration and volume exceeded tens of times. Therefore, as soon as he considered his task to document violations of the law in the colony performed, he refused to fulfill that institutionalized abuse.

During a week Mikalai was drawn up daily acts on. He refused to explain reasons as he had done it before in the statement written on March 24. Then they began to give penalties. He was deprived of food parcels, short meetings, and served three days in a punishment cell, and today he has been placed for two months in a Ward-type Room (WTR). Definitely, he cannot give calls there. All this took less than a week, she said.

Mikalai Statkevich told about conditions both in the WTR and the punishment cell when he found himself there for the first time in 2011. Walls there are navy, it is very dark there. A bench is very low, but a table is high. If you sit down, the table is at the level of the chin. The political prisoner says nothing has changed there, though the Deputy Head of the Regional Department of Corrections convinced him in 2013 that then everything had been painted in accordance with legislation requirements.

Today he is repeatedly drawn up an act on, the previous ones have not been considered. The number of penalties is likely to increase, the politician's wife says. - It is likely they prepare a new case against Mikalai.

Former presidential candidate Mikalai Statkevich was sentenced to six years in prison for organizing mass disorder on the day of presidential elections in December 19, 2010. He pleaded not guilty and he still refuses to write a petition for pardon.

In early 2015 after three years in Mahileu prison Mikalai Statkevich was transferred to the Shklou colony.