Young Front leader thrown into a dirty cooler with rats - awful conditions

Belarus. Mikalaj Dzemidzenka (Young Front, deputy head) thrown into a cooler; "when he was meeting his friends" - inslängd i en "kylare" 10 grader, smutsigt med råttor som springer omkring. A "system" and a common practice.

* Young Front activists were thrown into a cell with the temperature below 10 degrees Celsius.

* Young Front appeal to EU: "do not divide the Belarusian political prisoners into “important” and “not important”, but demand release of all of them, and struggle for that."

"Young Front deputy head Mikalai Dzyamidzenka was released yesterday from the detention centre in Akrestsin Street. He was arrested when he was meeting his friends, Uladzimir Yaromenak, Mikhail Musski, Raman Vasilyeu and Dzmitry Kramyanetski, who had been detained for two weeks.

Mikalai Dzyamidzenka said in an interview to charter97.org, the Young Front activists were kept in medieval conditions:

“Most part of the term I spent in the so called cooler, where people are thrown for violations of internal rules,” Mikalai says. “The cooler is located close to the office of an officer on duty. It is the coldest cell. The temperature there is about 10 degrees. Raman Vasilyeu was there for two weeks despite his sinusitis. It's a common practice in the detention centre to place political prisoners in the worst cells. It has become a system,” the Young Front deputy head continues.

“It's difficult for health to be there. Awful conditions. It's cold and stuffy. You cannot open a window. The cell is dirty with rats running everywhere. Plumbing equipment is terrible, everything is leaking,” Mikalai Dzyamidzenka says."

http://www.charter97.org/en/news/2012/4/2/50153/
"I spent most of my term in a cooler"
2.4.2012
(Via Charter 97, N.R)

Young Front: 
http://mfront.net/

Young Front's appeal to MEP's 
http://mfront.net/ep-resolution-of-march-29-2012.html

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