Pavel Sapelka: Mikalai Dziadok is being put in unbearable conditions
The famous Belarusian lawyer does not
believe the political prisoner is a persistent violator of prison
rules.
“Mikalai
Dziadok
has faced what most political prisoners did. The authorities create
unbearable confinement conditions for them. I have strong doubts that
Mikalai Dziadok,
Zmitser Dashkeivch
and Yauhen Vaskovich
violated prison rules and regulations to such a degree to be sent to
a maximum security prison,” Belarusian lawyer Pavel
Sapelka told
charter97.org.
The lawyer says an inmate must deliberately violate prison rules
and disobey prison staff to be transferred from a penal colony to a
stricter prison:
“I can guess from my experience what an
inmate must do and how to behave in a penal colony to be moved to a
prison. A penal colony is a place where no one usually has a desire
to violate rules. Only those who deliberately behave this way and
deserve such confinement conditions go to a maximum security
prison.”
Bear in mind that the court decided to transfer
political prisoner Mikalai Dziadok to a maximum security prison for
alleged violations of prison rules and regulations.
Mikalai
Dziadok, Ihar Alinevich
and Aliaksandr
Frantskevich were
involved in the anarchist case. They were accused of organizing a
procession near the Ministry of Defense building, carrying our an
attack on Shangri-a casino and the detention center on Akrestsin
Street, arson of the doors of a “Belarusbank” office and carrying
out an attack on the Russian Embassy in Minsk.
