Valkovenäläinen Nasta on vaarassa nääntyä nälkään vankilassa

Valkovenäläinen Nasta on vaarassa nääntyä nälkään vankilassa

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Vaadin, että mielipidevanki ja aktivisti Nasta Loika vapautetaan välittömästi.

Tietosuojaperiaatteemme.

JAILED HUMAN RIGHTS DEFENDER’S DIRE HEALTH

Dmitry Hara
Prosecutor General of the Republic of Belarus
Internatsiyanalnaya Str., 22
Minsk 220030
Republic of Belarus
Email: info@prokuratura.gov.by

Dear Prosecutor General,
I am extremely concerned about the ongoing arbitrary detention of prisoner of conscience, human rights defender and educator Nasta (Anastasia) Loika, in Homel prison colony. Her seven-year imprisonment is in retaliation for her human rights work and criticism of the Belarus authorities.

She has been held in conditions amounting to ill-treatment, including being subjected to prolonged solitary confinement for six months, in a four-square-meters punishment cell with prohibition of receiving parcels which were crucial for her proper nutrition and health and of calls and visits. Currently, she is only allowed letters and one call per month from her 78 years-old mother. In two years and four months of her imprisonment, she had only one visit allowed from her mother. She was arbitrarily listed as “a terrorist” which prevents her from receiving financial support in prison and thus cannot afford to eat properly. Nasta is a vegan and has to buy vegan food from the prison shop to eat properly, but has no funds to do so. This has a detrimental effect on her physical and mental health.

I urge you to:
• Ensure Nasta Loika’s immediate and unconditional release and stop misusing the criminal justice system to target her and other human rights defenders in Belarus.
• Ensure prompt, independent and effective investigation of the allegations of Nasta Loika’s torture and other ill-treatment, and of her arbitrary detention and prosecution, and hold those
suspected to be responsible to account through fair proceedings.

Yours sincerely,