New Trial over Young Front Leader Zmicier Dashkievich Expected Today
30.10.2012 / 13:22
The court of Mazyr is expected to arrive at the penal colony on October 30 to hold trial over Zmicier Dashkievich.
The leader youth organisation Young Front can be moved from the penal colony in Mazyr to a supermax prison, because Zmicier Dashkevich has been classified as a “persistent violator of prison rules.”
It's rather strange when he managed to violate the prison regulations, because Zmicier Dashkevich was thrown into a punishment cell and later into a cell-type unit just on arrival at penal colony No. 20 in Mazyr.
Dashkevich was sentenced to two years in a minimum security penal colony in March, 2011, allegedly for beating two men. He served his jail term in Horki and then in Hlybokae. In August, the court of Hlybokae held the trial in the penal colony and found Dashkevich guilty of repeated failure to fulfil orders of prison staff. Dashkevich's jail sentence was extended by one year.
International human rights groups recognized Dashkevich political prisoner.