Mahilou penal colony ignores Artsyom Dubski’s condition of health

• 21.09.2009, 9:36

The colony administration doesn’t order hospital diet to him, though he suffers from gastric ulcer.

Artsyom Dubski’s mother received two letters from her son. Alena Dubskaya became worried over the news the administration of the Mahilou colony, where her son is kept, hadn’t react to the fact he had the ill stomach. The political prisoner could have been ordered a hospital diet, but the administration decided not to do this, Radio Svaboda reports.

“He wasn’t ordered hospital diet,” Alena Dubskaya said. “But they know he suffers from gastric ulcer. He writes this fact wasn’t taken into account. He is still in quarantine.”

Lawyer Tamara Sidarenka said on September 21 she would make a complaint against the decision of the Mahilou region court, which had upheld the punishment of 1.5 years in prison for the participant of the Process of 14.

“The complaint has already been prepared,” the lawyer of the political prisoner says. “if it is not satisfied, we’ll make new appeals.”

As we have informed, on July 7 participant of the Process of Fourteen Artsyom Dubski was sentenced to a year of imprisonment in a correctional colony of general regime for participation in the Process of Fourteen. In 2008 the young activist was forced to leave for Ukraine as policemen issued two far-fetched warnings for violation of the rules of serving the sentence. Dubski was detained in February 13, 2009 in Homel.

The Process of 14 is a criminal case under article 342 of the Criminal Code of Belarus, instigated against participants of a peaceful rally of entrepreneurs held in Minsk on January 10, 2008.

For participation in this rally 14 youth activists were sentenced to different terms of imprisonment and restriction of liberty. Amnesty International recognized the participants of the Process of 14 Prisoners of Conscience in 2009.