According to a well-known doctor in Vitebsk Igor Postnov, members of the presidential campaign in 2010, Sergei Ryzhov, sentenced to six and a half years in prison on a hunger strike and has refused in writing by eating the food and tea.

April 3 Pervomaisky district court of Vitebsk passed sentence against the former presidential contender of the Republic of Belarus Sergei Ryzhov. Politics was accused of committing illegal acts under Article 167, part 1 and article 339, part 1 of the Criminal Code. Now he is in the Vitebsk prison.

Sergey Ryzhov pleaded not guilty and did not accept the verdict. Consideration of his appeal in the Vitebsk regional court to be held on 12 June. Ryzhov Supporters say his case is completely fabricated and fight against illegal, in their opinion, conviction of his friend.

The details of the hunger strike and the state of health Ryzhov unknown. That's what said about this to our correspondent Igor lean: "The government arranged a trial of an active person who was going to go to the polls. The case was fabricated. Those pictures that sent us to the post office, fully proved by the fact that it is absolutely not clear who is in them. When the matter was brought to him, he refused to sign it. His brutally beaten. A month is a trial. When I wrote about this abuse, I initially refused. But when I wrote the second time as a representative Sergei Ryzhov, it's not in jail he was beaten, and the staff escort service, now changed the investigator, and he checks three weeks."

"The letters do not reach nor mine, nor his, – said Igor lean. – Make a complete information blockade. Today the hunger strike – this is his last chance. I just called to the bar, the third day of a lawyer can not meet with him, citing his busy schedule, even though we had already paid him more than thirty million. However, a complete mess of all branches of government. Now is such a case, when all of us who are on the loose, it is necessary to save the life of Sergei Ryzhov, because tomorrow in its place can be one of us, including myself."

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