Head Of EP Delegation For Belarus: We Demand Lukashenka Regime Stop Beatings And Torture

The MEP supported Mikalai Statkevich and Polina Sharendo-Panasiuk.

Head of the European Parliament Delegation for Belarus, Lithuanian MEP Juozas Olekas called on the Lukashenka regime to release Belarusian opposition leader Mikalai Statkevich and activist of the European Belarus civil campaign Palina Sharenda-Panasiuk.

“We are strongly appalled by the reports that Belarusian political prisoner Palina Sharenda-Panasiuk was severely beaten up in custody. We demand Lukashenka regime to stop beatings up and tortures! Medical assistance, access to the lawyers should be given immediately,” Juozas Olekas writes.

“There is no information about leader of Belarusian opposition Mikalai Statkevich for 160 days-neither about his whereabouts nor about his health.This is unacceptable! We urgently demand information about Mikalai. Medical assistance,access to the lawyers should be given immediately,” Head of the European Parliament Delegation for Belarus notes.

Palina Sharenda-Panasiuk was supposed to be released on August 6, but a criminal case was opened against her for the second time for “disobedience to the administration of the colony”. Now Palina faces up to two more years in prison. There was information that she had been severely beaten in the colony.

The mother-of-two has been in captivity since early January 2021. It is important to note that Palina Sharenda-Panasiuk renounced the citizenship of Belarus in the colony.

Belarusian opposition leader Mikalai Statkevich has been deprived of the necessary medicines and has been held in solitary confinement for more than three years, while his family has had no information about him for more than six months.