Political prisoner Dzmitry Novik is pressurized in Shklou penal colony

Dzmitry Novik was sentenced to 42 months in a high-security penal colony for participation in the protest rally against the rigging of the presidential elections on 19 December in Minsk. In his recent telephone conversation with his mother the prisoner said that he was being provoked in prison. He said that soon there could be declared an amnesty, that's why the possible reason for the provocations could be that the prison administration wants to leave him in jail, or even give him another sentence.

The mother informed Dzmitry's lawyer about it. He promised to come to the prison and discriminate in the situation.

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Dzmitry Novik is a native of the town of Baranavichy. He was sentenced to 3.6 years in prison by the Frunzenski District Court of Minsk. He partially admitted his guilt and didn't appeal the sentence.

Within the frames of this trial the court also tried Aliaksnadr Malchanau (sentenced to 3 years of imprisonment) and Aliaksandr Atroshchankau (press-secretary of presidential candidate Andrei Sannikau, sentneced to 4 years of imprisonment).