The European Civil Campaign of Belarus has issued a statement on the inhumane situations of detention of political prisoner Palina Sharenda-Panasiuk.
“The administration of the Women’s Penal Colony No. 24 (Zareshcha) continues to exert pressure on Belarusian European activist Palina Sharenda-Panasiuk.
Palina spent almost 3 months in the SHIZO (punishment cell) in less than four months of her in the colony. This violates all detention rules.
Palina has been imprisoned since January 2021.
Judge Yauhen Brehan handed down the verdict on June nine and sentenced her to two years in criminal matters 3 articles of the Criminal Code: article 368 (“Insulting the president”), article 36 ninth (“Insulting a public official”) and article 364 (“Violence or Threat of Violence against an Employee of Domestic Organs”).
She served her sentence in the settlement of Homiel, however, on 7 April 2022, Homel Chyhunachny District Court Judge Mikalai Krupadziorau sentenced her to an additional year in prison in addition to the major criminal sentence. After that, the criminal politics was transferred to the Women’s Penal Colony. No. 24 in Zareshcha.
Palina’s husband, Andrei Sharenda, threatened with arrest, ordered him to leave Belarus. Her two youngest children were also taken out of the country.
Palina is a wonderful lineage in the colony for her courageous stance in defense of her human rights and human dignity.
European Belarus demands a speedy end to the torture of a courageous opposition activist in the colony.
We warn the head of penal colony No. 24, Internal Service Colonel Dzmitry M. Kurlovich, of his non-public duty for the life and physical condition of Palina Sharenda-Panasiuk, as well as the duty of thieves that he and the staff of the agreement will face for the inhumane remedy of the prisoners.
We call for the promptness of Palina Sharenda-Panasiuk, the political prisoner convicted on trumped-up charges.
European Belarus urges the foreign community, human rights activists, journalists, public figures from other countries and all other people of intelligent will to pay attention to what Palina Sharenda-Panasiuk is and the thousands of Belarusian political prisoners (and there are more than 4 of the thousands of them in Belarus) and call on their governments to take more effective measures to exert pressure on the dictatorial regime of Belarus. Lukashenka to free Palina and all other political prisoners.
We want your solidarity!” the statement read.