Political prisoner Mikalai Statkevich doesn't get enough food
The political prisoner demands the prison authorities to fulfill the prison food regulations.
Mikalai Statkevich sent a letter to his wife Maryna Adamovich. Maryna also talked to him on the phone. According to
her, the political prisoner thanks all activists, who joined the initiative
groups to propose Statkevich as a candidate. Maryna Adamovich says Mikalai
Statkevich received a part of copies of decisions of election commissions,
which refused to register the former presidential candidate. “Mikalai noted the
decisions have the same text,” Maryna Adamovich says. She learned from a letter
about her husband's long struggle for observing the nutrition guidelines for
inmates. He found out these regulations were being violated, RFE/RL
reports.
“He writes they tried to draw him into a conflict by not giving enough food to
him. He didn't start a conflict, but he thinks now what to do with the food,
which does not meet the standards. He writes: 'If they do not move me to
general regime in order I can have my own food, let them organize meals in accordance
to standards. I pay for it from my pension.' At a meeting of the parole board,
which prolonged his prison term, he said he does not receive the food he pays
for and called it a theft. He does not receive his 250 gr of vegetables. I know
for sure he does not have enough food in prison and he cannot receive food
parcels from outside.”
Mikalai Statkevich, a former presidential candidate, was sentenced to 6 years
in prison for a protest rally against the rigged presidential election. He
began to serve his term in a penal colony in Shklou, but was later transferred
to a closed prison in Mahiliou for violation of prison rules. Statkevich's term
in a closed cell was prolonged in summer.
