Tatsiana Frantskevich: the son's stomach problems exacerbated
The stomach illness of the political prisoner
Aliaksandr Frantskevich is getting worse. He spent 10 days in the
penal cell on the New Year eve. All in all, he spent about a month
there during the last year. His mother Tatsiana Frantskevich is
anxious about the state of his health, also because he has just one
kidney.
At present she is preparing a medical parcel for
Aliaksandr, but has little hope that she would be allowed to pass
it:
"He has stomach illnesses, as the water is not quite
good there, and the quality of the food has some influence as well.
Of course, it is even worse as he has one kidney. We passed a parcel
with medicines last year, but the year is counted there not from 1
January, but from the time when one is taken to the colony. He got
there in July, that's why a year will pass in July, and there is
little chance that we will manage to pass the parcel to him,"
commented the mother.
In May 2011 Aliaksandr Frantskevich was
sentenced to three years of imprisonment as a figurant of the "case
of anarchists". He was found guilty of assaults on a number of
state organs and hacking the website of the Navapolatsk City
Executive Committee. Mr. Frantskevich pleaded innocent at the trial.
Human rights defenders consider him to be a political prisoner and
demand his immediate release from jail.
