International human rights defenders demand to release Syarhei Kavalenka

They also demand to provide him with the necessary medical assistance. The human rights defenders remind that Kavalenka was sentenced to 25 months of imprisonment in a colony for having violated “the home penal labour regime” (he was sentenced to it for having hoisted a white-red-white flag on Vitebsk’s main New Year’s Tree). They think that the repeated sentence is “an undisguised continuation of political repressions”. Human rights defenders are especially worried about Syarhei Kavalenka’s health condition – he used to be on hunger-strike and is being forced to eat in the psychiatric department of the colony “Vitsba-3” now.

"The Belarusian Ministry of Internal Affairs bears responsibility for Kavalenka’s life and health condition”, - informs BelaPAN quoting the statement of the International Federation for Human Rights.

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