Andrei Sannikau transferred to cell with more prisoners

The health of the presidential candidate has deteriorated.

On 12 July a lawyer visited the Interior Ministry’s detention facility and had a meeting with presidential candidate Andrei Sannikau sentenced to 5 years in a medium security penal colony for a protest demonstration against the flawed presidential elections.

As charter97.org learnt from the wife of the political prisoner, Iryna Khalip, Sannikau had been transferred to a cell where 12 people are kept. “The conditions are definitely worse there. This is a more crowded and stuffy cell. Andrei asked to pass him medicines for gout and painkillers, which allows making a logical conclusion that his health has deteriorated.

I am hurrying to the detention facility to pass medicines to him, but I am not sure if they will accept painkillers. Transferring Andrei to a worse cell can be regarded as additional pressure on him,” Iryna Khalip thinks.