Natallia Hershe

Natallia Hersche, who is currently being held in a closed men’s prison in Mahiliou, has embarked on another hunger strike on January 30, RFE/RL reports with reference to the political prisoner’s brother Henadz Kasyan. Natallia, who is a citizen of Belarus and Switzerland, has been behind bars for over a year.

Political prisoner Natallia Hersche will be transferred from the Homiel-based women’s penal colony to a prison, where the conditions of confinement are highly likely to be harsher.

She feels good, she’s not stressed, except she’s worried about her hair, which has started to fall out.

Belarusian political prisoner Natallia Hershe, who is also a Swiss citizen, was placed in punitive confinement for “violation of the established order of serving a sentence’, her brother Henadz Kasyan told RFE/RL.

Political prisoner Natallia Hersche, who is also a Swiss citizen, started another hunger strike, her brother Henadz told Belsat on March, 6.

On January 18, Belarusian political prisoner Natallia Hersche, who is also a Swiss citizen, was on a hunger strike, RFE/RL reports.

On December 7, Belarusian Natallia Hersche, who also holds Swiss citizenship, has been sentenced to two and a half years in prison for removing a balaclava from a riot police officer during a protest rally on September 19.