Mikhail Zhamchuzhny:This Is Enough To Feel Victory

The political prisoner continues confronting the administration of the penal colony.

Political prisoner Mikhail Zhamchuzhny sent activist of the European Belarus civil campaign Volha Nikalaichyk a letter in which he reported the latest news about himself.

“Mikhail wrote that the most difficult days for him were the 23 days that he spent in the punitive confinement in September,” Volha told palitviazni.info.

“Where does the information that I got to the hospital come from?” Mikhail Zhamchuzhny asked in the letter first of all. “Whom does this information come from: us or them? I reassure you - I haven’t been to any hospital, and now I’m in my “VIP cell”. The head and hands are working. Thus, we have achieved moral victory. Since September 29, I have been sent to the cell-type premises for 3 months”.

The political prisoner reports that he managed to try many things in the punitive confinement.

“The hardest were the last three days, when the temperature at night was only plus three degrees,” he said. “In order to keep warm, I had to do physical exercises. But I did it! It’s not all, but enough to feel victory.”

Zhamchuzhny also writes about the provocation against him: “They told me that the prisoners were looking forward to see me back in the detachment, and nothing threatened me. However, it turned out that they gathered everyone with a“ low status” in my section. I almost fell for this deception”.

“In response, I wrote a complaint that the letters were being destroyed, and for the first time someone came from the Department of Corrections to question me about this,” continues Mikhail Zhamchuzhny. “And then they asked for an explanation about my imitation of suicide back in 2017. They seem to start dealing with my problems …

I also sent statements to the Lukashenka administration, the central apparatus of own security of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, and to the Prosecutor General.”

At the end, Zhamchuzhny summarizes the latest results of his confrontation with the colony administration: “During the summer there were 70 days of punitive confinement, in August - a month of the cell-type premises, and the hard 23 days of a punishment cell in September.”