Daskievich Phohibited Meeting with Lawyer
13.09.2012 / 13:28
The administration of a detention center in Viciebsk did not allow Zmicier Dashkievich to meet with his lawyer on September 12, his girlfrien Nasta Palazhanka told.
While denying Mr. Dashkievich a meeting with the lawyer, the administration explained that it had no documents proving that his fresh conviction had taken effect and that the opposition activist had not submitted an application for such a meeting.
“This is not true,” Ms. Palazhanka said. “When Zmicier was held in the Hlybokaje prison he wrote two applications for a meeting with the lawyer, he sent one to the Viciebsk detention center by mail and asked for the other to be added to his personal file. Either these applications were destroyed or the chief of the Viciebsk jail told lies.”
Mr. Dashkievich was barred from seeing his lawyer for two months when he was held in the same detention center in 2011, Ms. Palazhanka said.
In a closed-door trial held on August 28 in the Hlybokaje prison, the 31-year-old Dashkievich was found guilty of persistent violation of prison rules under Part One of the Criminal Code’s Article 411 and sentenced to a one-year prison term. The remaining four months of the previously imposed prison term were included in the new term.