Vitsebsk: Siarhei Kavalenka’s wife and 7-month-old daughter get detained
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.
Several days ago Alena Kavalenka and her children held an action of solidarity
with her husband, Siarhei Kavalenka, who has been keeping a long-term
hunger-strike of protest against the unlawful imprisonment.
He went on the hunger-strike on 19 December, then made a break and resumed it
on 8 February. He was sentenced to 2 years and 1 month in minimum-security
colony for alleged violation of the regime of personal restraint to which he
had been sentenced for hanging out a white-red-white flag on the main New Year
tree of Vitsebsk on 7 January 2010. As of 12 March, Mr. Kavalenka weighed 51
kilos and his body temperature was 35.2 C.
