Zmitser Dashkevich may go on hunger strike

• 10.05.2011, 8:49

Young Front leader Zmitser Dashkevich, sentenced to two years in prison, said he had some problems with correspondence in a detention facility in Valadarski Street.

As Zmitser Dashkevich writes in a letter to Anastasia Palazhanka, 8 letters were stolen from him. As all letters have their numbers, he can know which letters have been received and which not,Radio Svabda reports.

Zmitser filed a complaint to a prosecutor’s office, the Department of Corrections at the Interior Ministry, and the chief of the detention facility. He says he will go on hunger strike if letter continue to disappear.

Anastasia Palazhanka appeals to the detention facility chief, censors and everyone responsible for confinement of Dashkevich.

“I am asking the detention facility staff to forget about our different views and to forget that we are on different sides of all political processes. We are human beings above all. We should treat one another as human beings. Our life is like a boomerang, let’s not forget about this. Acts of kindness bless our life, but intentional evil will return. If any of you needs held in his life, perhaps, we will the people who will understand you and give a helping hand. Let’s remain human beings. This is the only thing I am asking for.”

Dashkevich chose to wait for a decision of the Minsk City Court in a detention facility in Valadarski Street. Earlier, Zmitser was moved to another cell, not so crowded. After the guy had refused to appeal for transferring to a penal colony, he was returned to a cell with over 40 other prisoners.