Alena Kavalenka suspects her husband has resumed his hunger-strike
Siarhei Kavalenka has not
been given a meeting with his wife in Vitsebsk remand prison.
On 10 May Alena Kavalenka
tried to insist on a meeting with her husband, who is kept in the remand prison
of Vitsebsk, RFE/RL informs. But the
woman received a denial from the regional court. Alena shared information from
doctors of the psychiatry department of the hospital in Navinki about the state
of health of the political prisoner Siarhei
Kavalenka on the day when he arrived from Vitsebsk in early April.
“They said that he arrived in a critical condition. They did their best to
improve his condition somehow, however they admit that he was transferred from
them absolutely ill, with a whole bunch of problems and illness. I suspect that
he is not allowed to be visited now because he announced a hunger strike
again.”
“I have such a suspicion. When he was placed into this isolation ward, where he
suffered from humiliating treatment earlier, where the provocative video had
been filmed, I can understand him, and his possible beginning of a hunger
strike.”
The cassation appeal by Siarhei Kavalenka is to be considered by Vitsebsk
regional court on 18 May.
