Political Prisoner Dzmitry Palienka Transferred From Hospital To Colony

The political prisoner was being treated for his leg in the Zhodzina hospital.

Dzmitry Palienka has been transferred to the Babruisk colony, where he serves his two-year term, from the Zhodzina hospital. In the Zhodzina hospital, the political prisoner was being treated for his leg. Radio Svaboda reports it citing activist Maryna Kasinerava, who keeps up correspondence with Dzmitry Palienka.

How is Dzmitry Palienka feeling now?

"He wrote it briefly that the leg was "much better." In total, he stayed in the hospital for about two weeks, on April 18, they returned him to the Babruisk colony, but now he is kept in quarantine, he will be back to the detachment one of these days," – Maryna Kasinerava says.

In March it became known that for about 7 months Dzmitry Palienka had been suffering from a wound on his leg, which the colony doctor hadn’t been able to cure. The father of the political prisoner, Aliaksandr Palienka, did not rule out that his son could have damaged his leg at the manufacturing site or in a fight.

In October 2016, the activist of the democratic movement, Dzmitry Palienka, was sentenced to 2 years of imprisonment with suspended execution of sentence for "violent actions against a policeman" during the Critical Mass cycling event, which took place in Minsk in the spring of 2016. A few months later, for participation in solidarity actions, Dzmitry Palienka’s conditional sentence was replaced with a real one and he was sent to the Babruisk colony.

In 2017, the International Human Rights Organization Amnesty International recognized Dzmitry Palienka as a prisoner of conscience and urged the Belarusian authorities to "immediately and unconditionally release the guy who "was arrested solely for the peaceful exercise of his rights to freedom of speech and peaceful assembly."