Siarhei Kavalenka is not allowed to meet with his wife
Alena Kavalenka learned it from the investigator who
deals with her husband's case. On 3 January she had filed an application for a
meeting with Siarhei. However, on 5 Janury investigator Yury Volkau mocked at
her, saying that in some cases complaints could be considered for up to 10
days.
Alena said that it was not a complaint, but an application and she was going to
ask Siarhei to stop his hunger-strike, because he could get in a hospital
otherwise.
By the way, such thing happened almost a year ago, when Siarhei hungered to
protest against his imprisonment for participation in the street action of 25
March.
At present Siarhei Kavalenka keeps a hunger-strike of protest: he faces up to
three years of imprisonment under Article 415 of the Criminal Code, “evasion
from serving a criminal penalty”. The activists is charged with violation of
the term of personal restraint to which he had been sentenced for hanging out a
white-red-white flag on the main New Year Tree of Vitsebsk on 7 January 2010.
Alena Kavalenka also tried to pass drinking water to her husband. Only on 5
January the head of the medical department of the pre-trial prison explained
that the water couldn't be accepted as she could try to poison her husband in
such a way, and she could only transfer some money to him so that he would be
able to buy drinking water in the prison shop.