The resident of Mahiloŭ, whose son is serving a sentence in colony No. 8 in Vorša, applied to the editorial office of belsat.eu, where, according to the woman, psychological and physical pressure is exerted on him.
The total isolation, which was created by the administration of penal colony No. 9 (Horki) with respect to Mikhail Zhamchuzhny, was finally broken: a letter from a political prisoner was received by human rights activist Tatyana Revyako.
The administration of Horki penal colony No. 9 did not allow the republican and regional public monitoring commissions to see political prisoner Mikhail Zhamchuzhny.
Human rights activists became aware of the beating of political prisoner, the founder of the human rights organization "Platform Innovation" Mikhail Zhamchuzhny in Horki penal colony No. 9. On January 24, the guards left the man unattended in the corridor of the sanitation unit, where another convict severely beat him.
Human rights activist Pavel Levinov received information that the Viciebsk regional court on September 22, 2017 was sentenced to death. It came into force on October 6, 2017. This verdict was not appealed or protested. The convicted person in the Viciebsk case is placed in the Detention Unit No. 1 in Minsk.
Viciebsk region took the last place in the rating of enterprising regions, in which the largest number of individual entrepreneurs per 1 thousand inhabitants. But Viciebsk individual entrepreneurs earn more than others on agriculture. The study conducted the Kufar announcement site on the basis of official statistics and own data.
The political prisoner Mikhail Zhamchuzhny, whose correspondence was absent for several months, finally got the opportunity to write letters to his colleagues, friends, associates and human rights activists. From a letter received by human rights activist Tatyana Revyako, it became known that Mikhail Zhamchuzhny from January 6 was sent for one month to a chamber-type room (PKT).
As it became known to the human rights center "Viasna", on November 16, the five-day term of imprisonment in the ShIZO of the political prisoner Mikhail Zhamchuzhny expired. This is the 11th penalty, which the convict received from the beginning of August this year from the administration of the colony number 9 (Horki). Probably, now the next one will be delivered.
The economic decline in Viciebsk continues. In January-August 2017, only two regions of the country – Viciebsk and Mahiloŭ – the gross regional product (GRP) continued the decline, which dragged on in the Belarusian regions for two years. GRP began to grow in four other regions of Belarus.
Information agency "New Platform Innovation" ("Platform") appealed to the General Prosecutor's Office with a request to react to the facts of pressure, which, to the best of the organization's knowledge, are being rendered to the political prisoner Mikhail Zhamchuzhny by the administration of the colony No. 9 in Horki. This was announced at a press conference on August 15 in Minsk by the director of the Platform, Andrei Bondarenko.