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Statkevich should not know his rights

2012 2012-11-27T15:03:56+0300 1970-01-01T03:00:00+0300 en

According to statkevich.org, this seems to be the opinion of the administration of the Mahiliou colony #4 where the political prisoner Mikalai Statkevich is kept.

“I cannot explain in any other way the enviable stubbornness with which they keep returning me a printed copy of the Belarus’ Council of Ministers resolution #1564, which gives the nutrition standards and the standards for provision of the means of personal hygiene for prisoners. I have tried several times to send this resolution to Mikalai”, – the wife of the 2010 presidential candidate and present political prisoner Mikalai Statkevich Maryna Adamovich says.

“I am sure that prisoners have a right not only to know what the state guarantees to them (for that this resolution’s standards should be in every cell and in every brigade in a colony), but also receive everything they should without any seizures”, – Maryna Adamovich believes.

“The people are not only not guaranteed the right for humane treatment – even the minimal state undertakings aren't observed. The state hides the existence of these rights under various cover ups. Prisoners are completely defenseless before the administration; their complaints often do not leave the colonies and prisons’ walls. Specialized information resources are literally filled with evidence.

It reaches the level of absurd, when to Mikalai’s request to explain where the prescribed by the government’s resolution means of hygiene or food are, they would respond that money is not taken from his pension for that. I am sorry, but for what? May be for “resort” conditions? For a cell without a floor? For a wet ceiling? For the plaster falling off the walls? For the absence of daylight? For the cold, which is, apparently, a special service for preserving a good shape? ” – the woman wonders.

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