{"id":35530,"date":"2021-03-13T18:00:11","date_gmt":"2021-03-13T15:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rada.vision\/kak-podderzhat-belarusov-kotorye-golodajut-chtoby-otstoyat-svoi-prava"},"modified":"2021-03-19T12:42:30","modified_gmt":"2021-03-19T09:42:30","slug":"how-to-support-belarusians-who-starve-to-defend-their-rights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rada.vision\/en\/how-to-support-belarusians-who-starve-to-defend-their-rights","title":{"rendered":"How to support Belarusians who starve to defend their rights"},"content":{"rendered":"

Three prisoners, Igor Losik, Igor Banzer, and Dmitry Furmanov, are on hunger strike in the remand centers.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Igor Losik<\/strong> has declared a second hunger strike, this time a dry one. The previous Igor Losik held 42 days and stopped when he learned that some Belarusians also started a hunger strike in solidarity with him.<\/span><\/p>\n

The United States Agency for Global Media (USAGM) requested<\/a> the Belarusian authorities to release Igor Losik and to drop the charges against him.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00abIt is inadmissible that the report about the elections in Belarus cost the journalist freedom<\/em>\u00bb, – said representatives of the Agency.<\/span><\/p>\n

Igor Banzer hasn\u2019t eaten or drunk in 11 days. The danger of a dry hunger strike is that after 10 days it is difficult to cope with dehydration and hunger. The musician from Grodno is kept in harsh conditions: no contact with his family, two weeks in solitary confinement, and forced psychiatric examination.<\/span><\/p>\n

On 11 March, political prisoner Dmitry Furmanov<\/strong> announced a hunger strike in court. He protests against the conditions of detention in the Grodno prison. On 9 March, Furmanov was placed in solitary confinement for five days. For the past month, he has been taken out of his cell solely in handcuffs.<\/span><\/p>\n

In Belarus, there are cases of hunger strikes by political prisoners to achieve their goals.<\/span><\/p>\n

In January, Natalia Hersche<\/strong>, a Belarusian and Swiss national, ended her first hunger strike when the Swiss Ambassador was allowed to visit her, began to transmit letters, and improved conditions of detention.<\/span><\/p>\n

In 2009, entrepreneur Nikolai Avtukhovich<\/strong> starved for 90 days and obtained a change in the measure of preventive detention to house arrest.<\/span><\/p>\n

Support Belarusians, who have taken extreme measures to draw the attention of Belarusian and international public opinion to illegal detention and harsh conditions of detention.<\/span><\/p>\n

Addresses<\/strong> for Igor Losik<\/a> and Dmitry Furmanov<\/a> – on politzek.me<\/a><\/span>, Igor Banzer – on dissident.by<\/a><\/span>.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Three prisoners, Igor Losik, Igor Banzer, and Dmitry Furmanov, are on hunger strike in the remand centers.\u00a0 Igor Losik has declared a second hunger strike, this time a dry one. The previous Igor Losik held 42 days and stopped when he learned that some Belarusians also started a hunger strike in solidarity with him. The…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":35426,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[221],"class_list":["post-35530","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-en","tag-political-prisoners"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rada.vision\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35530","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rada.vision\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rada.vision\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rada.vision\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rada.vision\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35530"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/rada.vision\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35530\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35532,"href":"https:\/\/rada.vision\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35530\/revisions\/35532"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rada.vision\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35426"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rada.vision\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35530"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rada.vision\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35530"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rada.vision\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35530"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}