Why Darafeeva Should Have Stayed In Mahilyou Prison Longer

• 28.10.2016, 6:40

It would be great if Darafeeva and Davydzka could visit places of detention more often. Prisoners could at least eat normal food.

Pickles are like home-cooked, and the food is as if from a restaurant – the singer and deputy Iryna Darafeeva and the Director of the National Library Raman Matulski reported with satisfaction and smiles after visiting the dining room in the prison № 4 of Mahilyou.

One looks at their happy faces and wants to believe these honest people holding their offices: prison in our country is a real resort. But their experience and the MIA’s report on the conditions in prisons and detention centers differ as much as day and night from what people say about the penitentiary system after spending several years in prison.

The head of the Human Rights Centre “Viasna” Ales Bialiatski noted in an interview with “Salidarnasts” that the system has been up and running since the Stalin era.