Life of Mikalai Statkevich is in Danger!

Mikalai Statkevich, a political prisoner and a former presidential candidate lost consciousness in his jail cell on August 10^th. This was reported by the political prisoner's wife Maryna Adamovich.

Marina Adamovich wrote in her account of Facebook that in the medical unit of the colony some unknown drugs were given to Mikalai from which his health started to deteriorate:

"Mikalai was almost forcibly taken to the medical unit on Saturday night, where" they found that he "has a high blood pressure”. After the "rendered assistance" he began to feel even worse, and the next day, when he fell to the floor of his cell he could not get any help for 20 minutes, although his neighbor was constantly banging on the door of his cell. The next day, they confiscated his letter to me... Why? They wanted this became known as late as possible? Something else was planned? They were in a hurry? What for? By the way, and the next his letter should reach me already, but it is not ... "- wrote Marina in her Facebook account.

Mikalai Statkevich, a political prisoner and a former presidential candidate, was supposed to mark his 57th birthday on August 12^th, 2013. This is his third birthday behind bars, where he has been spending 2.5 years already.  

But now nobody knows if he had a chance to celebrate his birthday or 

was poisoned to death in Mahilyow jail.

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US Sanctions Against Lukashenko & His Gang

US Sanctions Against Lukashenko & His Gang

US president George W. Bush has extended sanctions against Aleksandr Lukashenko and a number of Belarusian officials. Assets of the leader of Belarus and other top officials responsible for rigging presidential election results and disbanding protest rallies in 2006, were frozen last year. A son of the Belarusian president, Viktor Lukashenko (he is on the photo with his father), was blacklisted too.

As the press service of the White House informs, on Thursday (6/14/2007) George Bush signed a document stating that "blocking of assets" of those persons which come within the jurisdiction of the US, to be prolonged for a year, Radio Svaboda informs.

On June 19, 2006 the US President signed a decree on financial sanctions against 10 Belarusian officials, "responsible for undermining democratic developments and institutions, violations of human rights, for state corruption". These officials are a "threat to the US National Security". First a list of 10 officials was attached to the decree:

1. Aleksandr Lukashenko;

2. Viktor Lukashenko, a member of the Security Council, a Presidential aide;

3. Viktor Golovanov, Justice Minister;

4. Aleksandr Zimouski, the chairman of the Belarusian State TV and Radio Company;

5. Vladimir Naumov, Interior Minister;

6. Dmitriy Pavlichenko, SOBR commander;

7. Natalya Petkevich, a deputy head of the Presidential Administration;

8. Stepan Sukharenko, the KGB chairman;

9. Viktor Sheyman, the Security Council secretary;

10. Ludmila Yarmoshyna, the chairperson of the Central Elections Committee.

On February 27, 2007 the U.S. Treasury Department imposed financial sanctions against 6 more high-ranking Belarusian officials:

1. Petr Miklashevich, Prosecutor General;

2. Yuriy Padabed, Lieutenant Colonel of the Special Riot Police in Minsk;

3. Aleksandr Radkov, Minister of Education;

4. Vladimir Rusakevich, Minister of Information;

5. Yuriy Sivakov, former minister of the interior and former minister of sport and tourism;

6. Oleg Slizhevskiy, head of the Public Associations Department of Justice Ministry.

Sanctions against these six persons could be prolonged after February 2008.