Activist: I Would Like Public Solidarity To Help To Release Paliyenka Earlier

The treatment of political prisoner Dzmitry Paliyenka in Zhodzina continues.

"The next prison transportation will take place on April 18, it may be decided to send Dzmitry Paliyenka back to the Babruisk penal colony," - a friend of the political prisoner, public activist Maryna Nasenka told the website palitviazni.info.

On March 27, Dzmitry Paliyenka was transferred from the Babruisk colony, where the political prisoner is serving a sentence, to a hospital in Zhodzina. Paliyenka has serious health problems (for more than 7 months, a wound on his leg would not heal), but local prison doctors could not diagnose anything.

"The treatment in Zhodzina continues," - says Maryna Nasenka. - The next prison transportation will take place on April 18, so perhaps they will decide to send Dzmitry back to the colony with it. In the hospital, of course, the conditions are better than in the colony, but there is no choice. "

According to Maryna Nasenka, Dzmitry is looking forward to the end of the sentence, which is October 24 this year.

"But I would like to see the public solidarity helped to release him earlier," - the activist adds.

Dzmitry Paliyenka is a social activist from Minsk. The reason for the criminal prosecution was his participation in the peaceful meeting "Critical Mass", which took place on April 29, 2016 in Minsk and was interrupted by the police.

On October 12, 2016, the Central district court of Minsk was found guilty of committing a crime under Article 364 of the Criminal Code ("violence or threat of violence against officers of the internal affairs bodies") and Part 2 of Article 343 of the Criminal Code. As a result, Paliyenka was sentenced to two years of imprisonment with a delay in the execution of the sentence for two years.

On April 7, 2017, the Zavodski district court of Minsk considered the report of the body monitoring the behavior of the convict (most likely, the Zavodski district Internal Affairs Directorate), and the postponement of the execution of the punishment was canceled. In this regard, without the right to appeal, the activist was sent to a penal colony to serve a sentence of imprisonment for 1.5 years (taking into account th