MEP addressed chief of prison in Valadarski Street

• 1.06.2011, 12:30

A deputy of the European Parliament Marek Migalski, who had become a godparent for a political prisoner Zmitser Bandarenka, has addressed the chief of the remand prison in Valadarski Street in Minsk.

The MEP has written a letter with a request to provide necessary medical assistance to the prisoner of conscience who is kept in prison.

“Bandarenka has serious health problems: gastric ulcer, gout, hernia of intervertebral disks. He needs hospitalization urgently. Bandarenka stays in degrading conditions, in an overcrowded and humid cell. He does not receive adequate medical aid, and paresis of the right leg is possible, he can become a handicapped person,” the Polish deputy writes.

“I am addressing you with an appeal to grant hospitalization and decent incarceration conditions for Zmitser Bandarenka,” the letter writes.

“On May 22, 2011 after these long months, the family managed to successfully insist on a consultation of a neurologist for Zmitser. This consultation has unambiguously showed that the prisoner needs urgent hospitalisation and rehabilitation. I would like to turn your attention to the fact that such treatment of prisoners is an obvious example of human rights violations, and that medical aid is one of the basic human rights guaranteed by the Convention on Human Rights signed by Belarus,” Marek Migalski writes.

“The verdict to Zmitser Bandarenka are the burden for the court, and the conditions in which he has to serve the term of unjust sentence, are burdening you,” the European politician writes.