Strange Letter from Political Prisoner Vaskovich
Political prisoner and journalist Jauhien Vaskovich sent his grandmother a sort of strange letter. In the letter, Vaskovich asks not to perform any spontaneous activity or not to issue any complaints relative to him, baj.by writes.
“I live here, not you... Do you want to harm me?” he writes.
The political prisoner specified his requirements: “You can write about me in press, but not often and only about my imprisonment.”
He also asks not to make his letters from prison public.
He set the list of topics allowed for publishing: greetings, solidarity letters, and common information about his prison routine.
“It seems that some peculiar information about Vaskovich’s life in prison that appears in mass media makes the authorities angry and thus affects the life of Vaskovich,” says Anatol Sanacenka, editor in chief of newspaper Babrujski Kurjer where Jauhien Vaskovich was employed.
“May be he is psychologically oppressed in prison, may be something else happens to him... May be he is said he would not have so many problems (as multiple punishments) if media didn’t write about him...”