– Mary has been completely single for at least a year. She was kept in solitary confinement (a special cell called BKD). Regulations allow you to stay in CTC for up to six months. That's why he was moved to a private room for a few days and then moved back to a room, said an interlocutor for Radio Svoboda, the Belarusian-language editorial office of Radio Free Europe.
Kaleznikova was an associate of banker and businessman Viktor Babaryka, who was planning to run in the election, and after his arrest and imprisonment, an associate of 2020 presidential candidate Svetlana Chiganuskaya.
At a political trial, Kaleznikova was sentenced to 11 years in prison. He was put on trial with lawyer Maxim Snag (sentenced to ten years in prison) for “calls to take action harmful to national security, conspiracy to seize power in the country, creation of a terrorist organization”.
Health problems of a political prisoner
Svoboda recalled that in November 2022, Kaleznikova was hospitalized due to stomach ulcers, where she underwent emergency surgery. After returning to the penal colony and being imprisoned there, she was allowed to visit her father briefly (10 minutes).
According to Svoboda's interlocutors, Kaleznikova did not fully recover, he struggled with high blood pressure, for which he was not prescribed medication. She lost a lot of weight.
A former inmate from the same colony where Kaleznikava is held said he was moved from a special cell (sometimes referred to as a prison within a prison) to solitary confinement. It is cold and damp in solitary confinement. Prisoners are not provided with mattresses, beds or outer clothing. Conditions in the PKT cell are excellent – “there is a mattress, a duvet, a bed and clothes.”