The Human Rights Center “Viasna”

Activists of the Conservative-Christian Party Belarusian Popular Front Siarhei Kavalenka resumed his hunger-strike of protest against the unlawful prison sentence. At present he demands not only a review of his case, but the liberation of political prisoners and the removal of all bans on national symbols.

Siarhei Kavalenka has not been given a meeting with his wife in Vitsebsk remand prison.

Ihar Simbirou, Asipovichy activist of the Teel the Truth civil campaign, has reportedly declared a hunger strike while serving ten days of arrest in Minsk detention center in Akrestsin Street, Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty reports, quoting his former cellmate.

RFE/RL learned it from the father of the political prisoner, Aliaksandr Kavalenka, who visited his son in the psychiatric hospital in Minsk.

The regional court was to hear the appeal against the decision of the Pershamaiski district court of Vitebsk today.

Alena, Siarhei Kavalenka’s wife, describes her husband’s condition as “alarming”. She was allowed a meeting with Siargey in the Vitsba reformatory on 5 April, BelaPAN reports.

According to the wife of Siarhei Kavalenka, Alena Kavalenka, her husband is in a critical state and doesn't receive the necessary medical aid.

Syarhey Kavalenka's wife has sounded an alarm over the rapidly deteriorating health of the imprisoned opposition activist, saying that his lengthy hunger strike has already caused "irreversible" damage to his internal organs.

Alena Kavalenka, her 7-month-old daughter and a number of Kavalenka’s friends were detained for holding an action of solidarity with the political prisoner. Siarhei Parsiukevich told about the detention by telephone.