Action in Brest: Freedom to Statkevich!

• 4.05.2015, 17:02

A banner with a demand to release the political prisoner was unfurled today in a micro district Vulka of the city on the Bug River.

Charter97.org website was informed about that by a reader from Brest.

We remind that today, May 4, the trial over the political prisoner Mikalai Statkevich, is underway.

Mikalai Statkevich is the only presidential candidate in Belarus in the election-2010 who is still imprisoned. In May 2011 he was sentenced to 6 years of deprivation of freedom on charges relating mass riots on the polling day. International human rights organisations recognized Statkevich a political prisoner.

Initially the convicted politician served a sentence in the colony №17 in Shklou, however in January 2012 conditions were harshened for him, and he was transferred to Mahilyou prison №4 for 3 years. After this term, on January 12, 2015, Statkevich was returned to Shklou penal colony, where in the first two days two reports were drawn up against him for violation of internal rules.