Pavel Seviarynets Is Still In Punishment Cell

The politician's wife told him about it.

A judge of Savetski district court of Minsk, Vera Halaukova, sentenced the co-chairman of the BCD, political prisoner Pavel Seviarynets, to another 15 days of arrest. The trial was conducted via Ѕкуре.

This time Pavel was tried for "calls to participate" in a legal picket near the Kamarouski market on June 7. The picket was held during the collection of signatures for alternative presidential candidates.

However, Pavel has already served 15 days for participating in this picket, Pavel's wife Volha Seviarynets told Radio Racyja: "There are protocols from different police stations. They are similar, the witnesses said the same thing, though they are different witnesses. He was sentenced only for just standing there, and then for standing there and "calling" somewhere."

According to Volha, the torture and ill-treatment of Pavel continues. She could only see Pavel for a second, and noticed that he was bearing it bravely, but had lost weight and was pale: "He had been sitting without sun and fresh air for a month. He stays in the punishment cell. He was released to the general cell for a few days, and was put back in the punishment cell. Again the same conditions: no water, no walks, no books, no newspapers, no paper and no pen. An iron stool, he sits on the stool 24 hours a day".

Volha mentioned the cruelty of the court secretaries, who did not allow her to look at Pavel for even a few minutes, not to say about any conversations with him. She asks people to continue writing to the Prosecutor General's Office demanding to release Pavel and other political prisoners, as well as to demand the cessation of torture.

Pavel Seviarynets was brutally detained on June 7th near his house after returning from a picket near the Kamarouski market. The next day, he was sentenced to 15 days of arrest.

While serving his sentence the politician had at least three more administrative "trials" at which he was added 15 days each time (he received 60 days of arrest in total during the month). He has been staying in the Centre for isolation of offenders in Akrestsin Street for a month now.

We remind that the Young Front leader, Dzianis Urbanovich, told about cruel treatment and torture against Pavel Seviarynets Centre for isolation of offenders in Akrestsin Street.

Independent experts say that the actions of Lukashenka, Yarmoshyna and a number of law enforcement officers fall under Article 357 of the Criminal Code (seizure or restraint of state power by unconstitutional means), which provides for the death penalty.