Ales Bialiatski's rights to correspodence unlawfully restricted
Ales Bialiatski in court
In the middle of
April human rights defender Anastasiya Loika sent two letters of A4 format to
Ales Bialiatski, the head of the Human Rights Center "Viasna" who is
serving a prison term in corrective colony #2 in Babruisk.
The envelopes contained postcards, blank envelopes, post stamps and the
Criminal-Executive Code of the Republic
of Belarus. As she found
out later, these letters weren't received by Mr. Bialiatski.
As far as there were no prohibited items in the envelopes, Anastasiya Loika
considered it as an arbitrary limitation of Bialiatski's right to
correspondence. She filed an appropriate appeal with the Mahiliou regioinal
bureau of the penal department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs. Copies of
the appeal were also sent to the Mahiliou regional procuracy and the civil
supervisory commission at the main justice department of the Mahiliou Regional
Executive Committee.
Anastasiya Loika requests holding a check-up on the fact of censorship of
Bialiatski's correspondence at correctional colony #2 in Babruisk and informing
her about the results.
