Political prisoner Vasil Parfiankou not allowed to phone home even once
Vasil Parfiankou
Starting from August 2012, when Vasil
Parfiankou was put in the Baranavichy detention facility, he has not
never been allowed to phone home.
His mother didn't receive a
telephone call from him even on the New Year holidays. "I
received only a letter, in which he writes that he would not be
released on parole," said Valiantsina Parfiankova to Radio
"Liberty".
"He wasn't granted parole, which
means that he will stay there till the end of the term, 9 February.
We prepared a 5-kilo parcel for him and sent it on the New Year's
eve. He wrote nothing about the reasons why he had been denied
parole, but, as we learned from the Internet, the prison
administration has pretensions to him for alleged violations of the
regime. Though in his earlier letters he had written that the
administration hadn't picked on him, later it was found out that he
didn't pass the commission on parole successfully."
According
to Valiantsina Parfiankova, the prisoner does not complain about the
conditions and writes he is in a good health.
A former
defender of the Kurapaty burial ground and participant of the
post-election protests of 19 December 2010, Vasil Parfiankou was
sentenced to 6 months of arrest for an alleged violation of the
regime of prophylactic supervision, imposed on him for participation
in an action of solidarity in 2011. He is currently serving a
six-month arrest in the Baranavichy pre-trial prison.
