Mikalai Autukhovich placed in prison cell
Mikalai Autukhovich. Photo by Yulia Darashkevich.
As we have learned today, the administration of the
Ivatsevichy penal colony where political prisoner Mikalai Autukhovich is
serving his term has placed him into a prison cell for one month. Though the
formal reasons remain unknown, we consider it as a continuation of the ongoing
pressurization of political prisoners for their principled civil position.
Bear in mind that Mr. Autukhovich hasn't had a lawyer since the deprivation of
his counsel Pavel Sapelka of professional license. The entrepreneur had been sentenced to 62
months in a maximum-security colony for alleged unlawful keeping and
trafficking of five fire cartridges and a hunter's gun. He is serving his term
in penal colony #5 in Ivatsevichy. He served a half of his term by 8 September,
after which his penalty could be mitigated according to the Belarusian laws.
However, this didn't happen because of the regular provocations against the
prisoner, initiated by the colony administration.
