News on the topic: hunger strike
11.11.2011 Homel: Vasil Paliakou goes on hunger-strike
Vasil Paliakou, the head of the organizing committee of People’s Assembly in Homel, has gone on hunger strike in a temporary detention facility in Homel. BelaPAN news agency learnt this from human rights activist Leanid Sudalenka.
24.10.2011 Protester goes on hunger strike following arrest in Minsk`s Kastrychnitskaya Square
Opposition activist Alyaksandr Valantsevich has gone on hunger strike in the detention center on Akrestsina Street in Minsk following his arrest during a demonstration in central Kastrychnitskaya Square on Friday evening.
10.10.2011 Homel: dry hunger-strike and fines
Uladzimir Katsora, an oppositionist from Homel and organizer of the People’s Assembly, was taken to the Tsentralny district police department, where a report under article 23.34 of the Code of Administrative Offenses (violation of order of holding mass events) was drawn up on him.
27.09.2011 Three arrested opposition acitvists are on hunger strike in Homel
They are Andrus Tsianiuta, Kanstantsin Zhukouski and Zmitser Shauchenka.
20.09.2011 Homel activist goes on hunger-strike in prison
Homel civil activist Dzmitry Shauchenka, sentenced to 15 days of arrest for distributing leaflets on the upcoming “silent protest” on 21 September, has declared a hunger-strike, Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty reports.
11.07.2011 Yury Salodki: beaten, imprisoned, keeping dry hunger-strike
Hanna, the wife of the arrested protester Yury Salodki, says that her husband has been keeping a dry hunger-strike for 7 days already in the prison in Akrestsin Street in Minsk. He has been sentenced to 13 days of arrest for participation in the silent protest action on Pryvakzalnaya Square in Minsk on 3 July.
11.07.2011 Hrodna: arrested protesters keep hunger-strike of protest
According to http://harodniaspring.org, the people who were detained during the silent protests in Hrodna and are kept in prison, are keeping a hunger-strike of protest against the unlawful imprisonment. Civil activists from Hrodna learned about it when they started insisting on passing food parcels to the prisoners, whereas the guards refused to take them. Soon the guards had to admit that the arrested refused from food.
15.06.2011 UPB Activist Ihar Bantsar sentenced to 5 days of arrest
Journalist Andrzej Pisalnik said that Ihar Bantsar, an activist of the Union of Poles in Belarus, was sentenced to five days of arrest.
07.04.2011 Vitsebsk prosecutor is required to stop unlawful prosecution of Siarhei Kavalenka
Siarhei Kavalenka, activist of the Conservative-Christian Party Belarusian Popular Front was hospitalized from jail because of problems with his heart. His comrade Barys Khamaida addressed the city prosecutor with the demand to stop the unlawful prosecution of the activist aimed at spoiling his health, breaking him as a person and doing harm to his pregnant wife and 6-year-old son.
04.04.2011 Siarhei Kavalenka holds two protest hunger-strikes in a row
Siarhei Kavalenka, an activist of the Conservative-Christian Party Belarusian Popular Front, was detained for coming to the center of Vitsebsk with three white-red-white flags and chanting slogans on 25 March. He was charged with “disorderly conduct” and sentenced to 7 days of arrest.
04.04.2011 Likhavid, Budzimir, Malaletkin: circumstances of hunger-strikes connected to “mass riot case”
On 29 March Natallia Pykina, Judge of the Partyzanski district court of Minsk, found 20-year-old activist of the For Freedom movement Mikita Likhavid guilty of taking part in the “mass riot” that had allegedly taken place on 19 December 2010 in central Minsk, and sentenced him to 3.5 years in a medium security penal colony. After the trial, Mikita appealed against the judgement. On 31 March he also stated that on 4 April he would go on hunger-strike of protest against the unfair verdict. The action was supported by two more participants of the 19 December protest action, a well-known blogger Budzimir, and 49-year-old democratic activist from Orsha, Siarhei Malaletkin (by the way, the police had knocked out several teeth to him during the action).
31.03.2011 Mikita Likhavid goes on hunger strike
Mikita Likhavid informed his mother Alena Likhavid about the hunger-strike at a meeting in the morning on March 31 in Valadarski Street detention center.
04.01.2011 Mikalai Statkevich has been on hunger-strike for half a month already
The politician didn’t make any demands, because the sense of his hunger-strike is clear. He wants the election results to be cancelled due to mass falsifications. Mikalai Statkevich is not going to stop his hunger strike, associates of the political prisoner told belaruspartisan.org .
03.01.2011 Homel: KGB wants to ‘talk’ to Statkevich’s electioneering agent Yury Zakharanka
An unidentified KGB officer called to Mr. Zakharanka to invite him for a ‘talk’ as a witness in the case of the ‘mass riot’ that had allegedly taken place in Minsk on 19 December.
14.12.2010 Mother of many children has been hunger-striking for five days already
A mother of five children from Mahiliou Natallia Shkadun has been hunger-striking for 5 days already, striving for improvement of the living conditions for her family.
