Leanid Sudalenka: Shunevich Arrived At Field And Started To Fantasize

The head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs is too much into new initiatives.

The human rights center Viasna organized a meeting with town residents in Rechytsa, attended by Leanid Sudalenka. The legal inspector of the REP trade union made a speech on human rights and answered the questions of those gathered. The lawyer and human rights activist was asked about his attitude to the initiative of the Minister of Internal Affairs to set up special conditions for those who were released from a prison or colony at one of the argo enterprises in Homel region, the site praca-by writes.

Leanid Sudalenka notes that the statement is ill-conceived and reminds a PR action:

– According to the Constitution, work is a right, not an obligation, including for a former prisoner. As soon as the term of imprisonment ends, no one has the right to tell the person what to do next. If they are able to create such conditions at that "special collective farm" that not even convicted citizens will queue to work there, I would just welcome it: decent work, social adaptation. And what if a person has debts after being released? What level of a payment can the state offer? Forced work – it's like a chain to the leg. Is this the serfdom? Is he not free, this man? A citizen released from places of deprivation of liberty has served his sentence. Why is he not equal to those who have not served? Does he lose the right to choose his place of work? It will be the same as with the Decree No. 3. A free person would just leave if he is not a serf. This initiative is ill-conceived and reminds a PR action. Lukashenka said that the police should be in the field – and Shunevich arrived at the field and started to fantasize.