Illtreatment of political prisoners goes on - Sannikov and Dashkevich in danger, torture and death penalty used in Belarus

"A forcible attempt was made to throw Zmitser Dashkevich into a cell with a so-called downcast prisoner". (Persecution: Isolation cell - no Bible)

His fiancee Anastasia Palazhanka ♥ is rewarded by the INTERNATIONAL WOMEN of COURAGE Awards 2011 (U.S Department of State/Clinton-Obama). Hebr. 13:3, 8 (ESV) Алесь Бяляцкі ♥ , Сяргей Каваленка... ...


...DIPLOMAT and PRESIDENTIAL candidate Andrei Sannikov,

the most serious rival to president Alexander Lukashenka in the 2010 election, serving five and a half years, faced similar issues. When an "untouchable" prisoner was allocated to his solitary cell, Sannikov immediately called hunger strike and stood close to the door. Iryna Khalip erlier: "He looked like a a man who had passed at least 10 years of Stalin’s camps in the last three months."

Дмитри Дашкевич (Dimitry Dashkevich), Young Front, is the young man who recently wrote from prison cell encouragement to us all: "But thanks be to God, who in Christ always leads us in triumphal procession, and through us spreads the fragrance of the knowledge of him everywhere." (by Дмитрия Дашкевича) 2 Cor. 2:14 

Charter 97:

-"A forcible attempt was made to throw Zmitser Dashkevich into a cell with a so-called downcast prisoner.

Young Front leader Zmitser Dashkevich met with a lawyer in the penal colony in Hlubokaye today, political prisoner's fiancee Anastasia Palazhanka says. According to her, the meeting was nervous: prison staff did not allow Dashekvich to talk and threatened to terminate the meeting, Euroradio reports.

The political prisoner managed to say prison guards tried to throw him into a cell with a prisoner with a low social status, a so-called downcast. Under unofficial prison rules, a prisoner is considered a downcast if he stays in a cell with another downcast. Dashkevich refused from transferring to this cell and was thrown into a punishment cell.

Dashkevich thinks it was a provocation in order to open a criminal case against him for resistance to prison guards and prolong his term of imprisonment.

The political prisoner has to serve 10 months before the release."

http://www.charter97.org/en/news/2012/2/17/48157/
(17.2.2012)


Anastasia "Nasta" Palazhanka, his fiancee is rewarded with International Women of Courage Award, 2011:

Nasta Palazhanka of Belarus – Unable to attend the ceremony

Deputy Chairperson, Malady Front (Young Front) non-governmental organization
Joining the opposition youth movement in Belarus at the age of 14, Nasta Palazhanka has grown into a key figure in the opposition youth group “Malady Front" (Young Front) and exemplifies the extraordinary potential of civil activism in Belarus. Despite threats and politically-motivated pressure and harassment against herself and her family, she continues to advocate for civil society freedoms and promote respect for fundamental human rights. Imprisoned repeatedly for her convictions, she prevails in her belief that a brighter future is possible.
Age: 20

U.S Department of State (Clinton/Obama) mars 2011:
http://www.state.gov/r/pa/prs/ps/2011/03/157710.htm


More on "illtreatment" (Viasna "Human rights center") 20.2.2012:
http://spring96.org/en/news/50097

"Andrei Sannikov, the most serious rival to president Alexander Lukashenka in the 2010 election, serving five and a half years, faced similar issues. When an "untouchable" prisoner was allocated to his solitary cell, Sannikov immediately called hunger strike and stood close to the door. The new inmate was taken away within minutes.

"We have not witnessed that before: prison administration using the informal order to humiliate jailed dissidents," journalist and former prisoner of conscience Andrzej Poczobut told IPS.

It is neither the prison administration nor the judiciary who call the shots. According to Poczobut "all decisions regarding political prisoners are taken at the high level, usually by KGB." KGB is an acronym for the Committee for State Security.

"The regime is open in its intention: to break the dissidents, make them beg for mercy," Poczobut said. Last summer this journalist from Grodno got a suspended sentence of three years for insulting Lukashenka. He was released after three months detention."



Earlier: "Sannikov closed to death":
http://minkristnasamhllsblogg.blogspot.com/2012/01/eu-uppmanar-vitryssland-frige.html

"Message from presidential candidate Andrei Sannikov (tortured in jail): At parting Andrei pressed a note to the glass. It was written there: “Saving of my life is at stake. I can be killed at any time.”

Irina Khalip (his wife):  "I was shocked how exhausted he looks. He looked like a a man who had passed at least 10 years of Stalin’s camps in the last three months.
His mother who was at the meeting as well, was crying for the entire four hours on our way back. The first phrase her son said to her was: “I did not have a hope to see you again,”
 




Hungerstrike in prison (Kavalenka):
http://www.charter97.org/en/news/2012/2/21/48279/
Сяргей Каваленка:
http://nn.by/?c=ar&i=68905&fb_ref=.T0U2nKkd6bo.like&fb_source=home_oneline


Earlier (EU condemns perseution and death penalty in Belarus): http://minkristnasamhllsblogg.blogspot.com/2012/02/maximal-pressure-on-dictatorship.html

(EU) "condemn the continuous persecution of human rights defenders and members of the democratic opposition and the harassment of civil society activists and the independent media in Belarus for political reasons and demand the unconditional immediate release of all political prisoners."


Earlier: Iryna, Danil & Andrei:
http://minkristnasamhllsblogg.blogspot.com/2012/02/politician-can-you-live-with-that-to-be_13.html
Andrei Sannikov: "transferred from one prison to another seven times, accompanied by barking dogs and clicks of guards’ guns, who for more than a year is living in inhuman conditions, undergoing psychological and physical torture, who was first beaten in the KGB remand prison, then bullied in “pressure-cells” by prisoners patronized by the prison administration, and then held in a solitary confinement for more than three months, when he could not receive a word from his family, not knowing whether the loved ones are alive." QUESTIONS: "why Sannikov cannot phone from the colony still, why there are no letters from him and he still cannot tell the lawyer what is going on with him in reality" ?? Why a person is tortured in prison in modern Belarus, his wife and son’s health and lives menaced??"


Earlier: Iryna Khalip:
http://minkristnasamhllsblogg.blogspot.com/2012/02/shagal-and-chagall.html


Earlier: Interpol failiure:
http://minkristnasamhllsblogg.blogspot.com/2012/02/interpol-failure.html


About torture and death penalty: KGB is using torture in the "concentrations camps" in Minsk and in prisons in Belarus and death penalty is still a threat in Belarus.


Euroradio/N Palazhanka: Dimitry Dashkevich (again isolation cell for 10 days - no Bible despite his repeated requests):
http://euroradio.fm/report/zmitra-dashkevicha-pawtorna-zmyastsili-w-shyza-na-10-sutak-100201
In english:
http://www.charter97.org/en/news/2012/2/22/48350/



"Remember those who are in prison, as though in prison with them, and those who are mistreated, since you also are in the body." Hebr. 13:3, 8 ESV
"Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and today and forever."






Photo: Kerstin Lindén (opposition's flag, Minsk, Belarus)