Lukashists Sentenced Palina Sharenda-Panasiuk To One Year And Three Days In Prison

It became known what the political prisoner said in her last speech in court.

Lukashists sentenced activist of the European Belarus civil campaign Palina Sharenda-Panasiuk to a year and three days in prison for “disobedience to the prison administration.”

The prosecutor requested exactly this term for the political prisoner.

The verdict was handed down by Judge Stanislau Ivanyucenka.

The political prisoner’s husband, Andrei Sharenda, told the Charter97.org website that three days was a cynical gift from the judge:

“Three days is exactly the term that was not served under the previous sentence.”

The husband of the political prisoner says that in her last word Palina drew analogies between Kalinouski’s uprising and what is happening in Belarus today:

“Then the uprising lost, and its participants were subjected to repression. Some were executed, some were exiled to Siberia, some were sent to prison. Most of the participants in the uprising left the Russian Empire. Palina makes a direct analogy with those events and what is happening in Belarus. Kalinouski's uprising lost, but became the basis for the formation of not only the Belarusian nation, but even the Polish and Lithuanian ones. All participants in the uprising became national heroes, their names went down in history. And the executioners who tried and executed the rebels were punished before history and humanity.

Palina believes that the same will happen in Belarus. All those who are now suffering will become heroes, and their executioners will be tried by the International Criminal Court.

Also, in her last word, Palina spoke about the monstrous conditions in which she is held in the Rechytsa colony:

“In fact, Palina calls the conditions there a concentration camp for women in the 21st century. She emphasizes that women who have committed very terrible crimes are also held there — murders, crimes related to violence. But now women who oppose the regime are also being sent to the Rechytsa colony. Palina asks you to pay attention to the fact that in the center of Europe people are being killed in colonies. She appeals to the international community to do everything possible to ensure that she and other prisoners of this colony are released.”