Surgery needed for imprisoned activist

Siarhei Pasyukevich, an entrepreneur from Vitsebsk currently in after-trial detention, needs to undergo a surgery, reports Belapan quoting his lawyer Vera Stramkouskaya as saying. She said that the convist had already filed a request for an early transfer to the colony, becayse it is only from prison that he can be transfered to a hospital.

Parsyukevich was sentenced to two years in prison for having allegedly beaten a police office during the protests of entrepreneurs. The trial took place on April 23. Parsyukevich pleaded non-guilty.