Jailed ecologist Novikava cannot survive without her medicine
Tatstsyana Novikava has been arrested for 5 days. She will have to spend the term in Akrestsina prison.
Her friends are worried because Novikava is suffering from chronic disease, her thyroid gland was removed. According to nn.by, Tatstsyana cannot survive without regular doses of special medicines. Her friends are worried as she may not survive 5 days in jail.
Let us remind you that Novikava and Russian nuclear physicist Andrei Azharovski were detained together. Ecologist Iryna Suhiy and Mihail Matskevich were detained a bit later. All of them were accused of petty hooliganism. They all are anti-nuclear movement activists. They had been planning to present their appeals not to sign the general NPP construction contract to the Russian Embassy on Wednesday. Nevertheless, the contract was signed during the visit of the Russian PM Dmitry Medvedev to Minsk and the ecologists found themselves behind bars. Azharovski was imprisoned for 10 days and Matskevich - for three. Iryna Suhiy was fined for 1.5 million roubles.
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