Vitebchanin Sergei Kovalenko, who is serving a prison sentence in Mogilev, was in the medical unit. There he got straight to the punishment cell, where spent 16 days.

This was reported by the wife of the convicted Elena Kovalenko.

According to her agency BelaPAN , Sergei thrown in the cooler end of July. This happened immediately after the family visits. First administration of the colony it for nine days, but after adding seven more. According to Elena Kovalenko pressure due to the fact that it is hard not signing papers on the recognition of guilt.

Sergei had to come out with a punishment cell on 14 August. But the prisoner's wife learned that he was taken to the infirmary of the colony. What kind of reasons - one is anyone's guess. Elena Kovalenko also reported that her husband was in the medical unit is one in a separate room.  

"Allow me to convey to him a number of drugs to the liver, kidneys, stomach and pancreas.What exactly had the disease, I do not know, but apparently his condition after being in the cooler has deteriorated, " - said the wife of the convicted person.

Recall that the CCP BPF activist Sergei Kovalenko arrested December 19, 2011 and accused of violating the serving of "household chemicals" that Kovalenko was for hanging a white-red-white flag on a Christmas tree at Victory Square in Vitebsk in 2010. Kovalenko was sentenced to two years and one month in prison to be served in a penal colony.Immediately after his arrest, he declared a hunger strike, which lasted, with short intervals of about two months.

May 18, 2012 Vitebsk regional court dismissed the appeal against the sentence Kovalenko.