Mikalai Statkevich transferred to prison №4 in Mahilyou

• 7.05.2015, 10:52

There the political prisoner is to stay until the end of the term, for 1 year, 7 months and 15 days.

It was said by Maryna Adamovich, the wife of Mikalai Statkevich, the presidential candidate in Belarus in the previous election, statkevich.org website informs.

“Today I managed to reach the penal colony on the phone, and they confirmed that Mikalai Statkevich had been transferred to the prison №4 in Mahilyou. A little more than 3.5 months have passed since he left this institution. And now he returned there again. Representatives of the colony refused to discuss the transportation with me, but I think that it happened on the same day of the court hearings, or rather on May 4 overnight. As far as I know, they make prisoners’ transfers on Mondays. And it was for a reason they hurried to finish the trial in one day. Perhaps he had not had an opportunity to pack without ruffle, as Mikalai had been kept in a ward-type room, and his things in the prison unit. And it’s a déjà vu again. He was transferred quickly, in the same manner, without letting him pack calmly, in 2012,” Maryna Adamovich said.

Mikalai Statkevich is the only candidate at the 2010 presidential elections who is still in prison. He was sentenced to 6 years of imprisonment in May 2011 for organising mass disorders on the election day. International human rights organisations recognised Statkevich as a political prisoner.

The politician began to serve his term in correctional facility No.17 in Shklou, but was transferred to stricter prison No.4 in Mahilou for three years in January 2012. Statkevich returned to Shklou in January 2015 and got two warnings for violating prison rules in the first two days.

Now one can write Mikalai Statkevich to his old “new” address:

212011, Mahilyou, Krupskaya Str., 99a, quarantine