On November 24, it became known that Mikalai Statkevich fell ill with pneumonia (previously, while behind bars, he contracted covid three times. This was reported by the wife of political prisoner Marina Adamovych after receiving a letter from him. Also, according to Adamovych, Mikalai was not allowed a lawyer .

Until this moment, the relatives did not have any new information about Statkevich's condition.

Today, Marina Adamovich reported that she received a letter from her husband, but it was written on November 21.

"You wrote that on November 5-7, you were very "worried".

Probably not without reason, because on 7.11 my entire rat farm left in full and is not coming back.

And at 8.11 in the evening I started to shake - another third unnamed virus in these places.

It was significantly more difficult than the previous ones.

They gave 10 days of "bed rest" — that is, during the day, the bunks are not attached to the wall, the mattress is not taken away," Statkevich wrote on November 21.

- Somewhere from 11.11 to 15.11 there was a "peak".

High temperature all the time, body aches and severe arrhythmia almost all the time with short breaks.

There were problems with obtaining propafenone [Mikolai has a guaranteed supply, but it is not in the cell — I want to give it out, I want it not, M.A.].

Now there is no arrhythmia for five days.

The well-being has significantly improved.

The temperature stabilized somewhere at the level of 38°.

But it will pass.

[...]

By the way, in any condition, the pressure was 120/70.

My motor itself is good, only someone got into its electronics with dirty fingers, as a motorist would say."

Mikalai Statkevich was

detained on May 30, 2020, when he and his wife were traveling to the center of Minsk, where signatures were being collected for the nomination of candidates for the August 9, 2020 elections.

On December 14, 2021, judge

sentenced Statkevich to 14 years of imprisonment in a special regime colony.

Anatoly Latushka is "strongly advised" not to write letters in Belarusian

Human rights activists report that Anatoly Latushka is being asked not to write letters in Belarusian, because the censor in the Vitebsk pre-trial detention center "has not studied the language and does not understand it at all."

However, as "Viasna" writes, Anatoly continues to do it.

On September 20,

Pavel Latushka's cousin, was sentenced to 6 years in prison and a fine of 300 basic.

Earlier, human rights activists reported that Anatoly was beaten after his arrest.