Yauhen Vas’kovich spent 10 days in a punishment cell at the beginning of August. He regularly writes and calls his mother. The prisoner prefers not to have a lawyer, because he thinks it is pointless. The next date with relatives is planned on January. Mikalai Dziadok celebrated his 25th birthday in prison on August 23. […]
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Mikalai Dziadok (4,5 years) is finishing his 3rd month in a solitary cell after having refused to work on Saturdays. Work is obligatory in Belarusian penal colonies, but is regulated by the Labour Code, which prescribes that a person shouldn’t work more than 40 hours a week. Mikalai was forced to work more on Saturdays,
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Jauhen Vas’kovich has been put on special watch list. He wrote this in a letter to his parents. The reason was his status of an escape-risk prisoner inclined to violence. The political prisoner says he was in a punishment cell from July 11 to July 21 for falling asleep during the day. “It obvious that
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Alesya Skapintsova, a former colleague of Yauhen Vaskovich from “Bobruiski Kuryer” newspaper, received the first letter from him. A prisoner of Mahilou penal colony No. 4 does not confirm suppositions of Babruisk dwellers, who thought Yauheny does not receive letters only from them. It turned out that his letter do not reach all recipients, Viasna
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This information has been confirmed by the colony’s administration, but they did not clarify where he had been sent to. His mother doesn’t know about the transfer yet. Jauhen informed in his last letter that he was supposed to be transferred to the cell-type premises. A representative of the colony stated that the prisoner’s mother
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