Found guilty of mass riot organisation on December, 19, 2010, Mikalai Statkevich has already spent 1,500 days in prison.
Belsat TV produced a movie featuring the story of the fighter for Belarus’ freedom (English subtitles):
Two weeks ago the imprisoned politician was transferred from Mahiliou prison No 4 to Shklou penal colony No 1. Its administration is trying to exert pressure on him: two reports have been placed on Mikalai Statkevich for ‘violating the prison rules’ within his two-day stay in Shklou penal colony.
He is the last 2010 presidential candidate to be in prison. The sentence given to Mr Statkevich in 2011 was one of the toughest: six years of imprisonment in a maximum-security penal colony. The reason might be explained by the fact that in his election speech Mikalai Statkevich addressed to the current president demanding “to give back all that you have stolen”. The authorities are trying to embitter Statkevich’s life even in prison putting him to a disciplinary cell or making him share a ward with an AIDS sufferer. However, the former presidential candidate keeps mantaining his innocence and refuses to ask Belarus president Lukashenka for pardon.
