Today the coordinator of the civil campaign “European Belarus”, Dmitrii Bondarenko, is to be discharged from No. 5 Hospital in Minsk, after a serious neurosurgical operation on his spine (excision of a double-sided herniated disc), and he is to be sent back to the prison of the Internal Affairs Ministry in Volodarskii Street.<\/p>\n
The wife of the political prisoner, Olga Bondarenko, has informed the site charter97.org about this fact.<\/p>\n
“I was calm when Dmitrii was in No. 5 Hospital; I was happy about every day of the rehabilitation, but now I am in despair again; I am very worried. Everyone around is saying only one thing: he needs serious, long rehabilitation. Now it is not yet known where Dmitrii will be sent. I hope that they will send him to a prison hospital, not to a cell. But after that he will be transferred to prison, all the same. And Dmitrii needs rehabilitation for half a year, at least. If he is not given that, the doctor said that he would suffer chronic pains, his right leg would not recover, and everything would be even worse,” Olga Bondarenko said.<\/p>\n
Recently the political prisoner sent an application to the governor of the prison, with a request to change the punishment of imprisonment to a milder one, as he has served one third of his term. According to Bondarenko’s wife, he does not have much hope that the authorities will take such a decision, but he has the right to send such a petition under the law.<\/p>\n
Olga Bondarenko quotes some passages from Dmitrii’s letter:<\/p>\n
\u201cI asked a doctor in exercise therapy to give me a set of exercises for rehabilitation in the upright position. She started to shout, “Upright position! You’re out of your mind! It must be done lying down for several months!” I said that in a week I could be sent to prison, and there I would be able to do exercises in the upright position only. She said, “Remember, only lying down; no exercises in the upright position.” I said, “It\u2019s a prison” and so on. She became nervous: “You need serious gradual rehabilitation for half a year as a minimum!\u201d It was nothing new. I am living one day at a time. Whatever happens, so it will have to be.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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