Volha Ivashyna: Dzianis is waiting for your support

Since then, his wife Vol­ha could not see or hear him, and received only one let­ter from her hus­band — on April 7. In the let­ter dat­ed March 17 Dzia­n­is sends greet­ings to all his friends and col­leagues.

Vol­ha Ivashy­na explains:

— This is the first let­ter in a mon­th’s time, I sup­pose, there were oth­er let­ters as well, and it will take them even longer to reach us.

She says she learns about Dzia­n­is only through his lawyer.

«The lawyer says only gen­er­al things like how Dzia­n­is feels, and what he needs us to send him. Dzia­n­is miss­es us all, he says.»

The lawyer also says that Dzia­n­is received a few let­ters from the fam­i­ly.

Vol­ha also wrote a let­ter to the inves­ti­ga­tor ask­ing for a meet­ing with her hus­band.

She says, Dzia­n­is had a chance to have a quick word with anoth­er polit­i­cal pris­on­er — a famous Belaru­sian artist Ales Pushkin.

Dzia­n­is Ivashyn was detained on March 12. The police seached apart­ment late into the night. Also, the police searched his moth­er’s home, and, on March 15, they came with a search war­rant to the home of his 95 y.o. grand­moth­er. 

Ivashyn is an inves­tiga­tive jour­nal­ist. In Belarus, he workes with the Novy Chas news­pa­per. The last arti­cle that he pub­lished in Novy Chas was about for­mer Ukrain­ian «Berkut» (riot police) offi­cers suc­cess­ful­ly land­ed  jobs in Belaru­sian police forces.

He is also a jour­nal­ist and edi­tor of the Belaru­sian ser­vice of Inform­Na­palm web­site.

Write a let­ter to Dzia­n­is (an auto­mat­ic trans­la­tion into Belaru­sian or Russ­ian would work fine) at:

Dzia­n­is Yauhenavich Ivashyn

prison №1, ul. Kira­va 1, Hrod­na, 230023