Political prisoner Mikalai Dziadok is allowed to have only one meeting and one parcel a year

The political prisoner Mikalai Dziadok has been kept in the cell-type facility of Mahiliou for over a month already. He was transferred there from the Shklou colony, allegedly for repeated violation of the prison regulations.

According to his father, Aliaksandr Dziadok, the transfer from a colony to a prison deprives his son of additional number of food parcels and meetings with relatives: "He has been kept there for more than a month already, spent some 2-3 days in the quarantine, and then was immediately transferred to a cell.

It's a prison, it has it's own conditions. He will have the right to one meeting and one parcel a year. That's all," says the father.

During the stay in the Mahiliou prison Mikalai Dziadok was has been visited by his counsel. Before the New Year he was also visited by his wife. He has no complaints about health and the new regime.

Mikalai Dziadok has been sentenced to imprisonment within the framework of the so-called "case of anarchists", together with Ihar Alinevich and Aliaksandr Frantskevich. They were charged with the organization of an anti-military procession near the Joint Staff, assaults on the Embassy of the Russian Federation, the delinquents' isolation center in Akrestsin Street and a number of other state and private institutions. None of them pleaded guilty. Human rights defender consider them to be political prisoners and demand their immediate release.