‘Freedom To Paliyenka!’ Now Written Over Babruisk Penal Colony’s Wall

Activist Dzmitry Paliyenka’s allies held an action of solidarity with the political prisoner.

A group of Belarusian anarchists painted a graffiti “Freedom to Dzmitry Paliyenka!” on the wall of the penal colony #2 in Babruisk, where the political prisoner is serving his term, Belsat TV reports.

According to the anarchists, they protest against the unfair sentence to their ally. The anarchists call for holding similar actions as “any of us may find ourselves in his place”.

Important to note, on April 29, 2016, an incident occurred between Dzmitry Paliyenka and the traffic police inspectors in the course of the bicycle rally “Critical Mass”. The beginning of the incident is seen in the video.

After that, riot police arrived and brutally detained the cyclists.

On October 12, 2016 judge of the Central district court of Minsk Valer Yesman sentenced the activist to 2 years in jail with the delay of sentence.

On March 10 this year, the Maskouski district court of Minsk sentenced Paliyenka to 7 days of detention for “petty hooliganism” for having expressed his outrage about the sentence in the “anti-faschists case” in the House of Justice.

On March 20, Dzmitry was detained near the Center for Isolation of Law-Breakers in the Akrestsin Street in Minsk, when he was passing parcels for the detainees. The Zavodzki district court of Minsk sentenced him to 15 days of detention for the peaceful action of protest against the construction of the office center in the Kurapaty memorial zone. On the day of expiration of his detention term, which Paliyenka served in the detention center in Zhodzina, he wasn’t released. Former cell-mates informed that they “added up” 10 more days in jail for Dzmitry Paliyenka, no one knows for what.

According to the Belarusian legislation, probation can be changed for real prison term under the condition of systematic violation of the public order. Three recent administrative cases appeared enough to consider Dzmitry Paliyenka a systematic law-breaker.

On April 18, Dzmitry Paliyenka was sent to the penal colony #2 in Babruisk.

On May 26, Dzmitry Palyenka turned 23. The anarchists lit fireworks near the penal colony’s walls to mark this day.