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Mother, sister appeal for new meeting with Uladzislaw Kavalyow

Uladzislaw Kavalyow's mother and sister asked the Supreme Court on Thursday to allow them to visit again the 25-year-old man who was sentenced to death in the subway bombing case on November 30.

Lyubow Kavalyow had a 30-minute meeting with the son at the detention center of the Committee for State Security (KGB) in Minsk shortly after his sentencing. The young man also had a separate 10-minute meeting with his sister.

On December 15, Lyubow Kavalyow also appealed to the chief of the KGB detention center to allow her son to send and get letters and borrow books from the jail library, as well as receive vitamins to help him manage his bronchial asthma. She also urged the official to consider discontinuing the use of handcuffs on Mr. Kavalyow.

In her appeal, Ms. Kavalyow said that her son had been convicted on a trumped-up charge and warned that all convicts "are entitled to a humane attitude" and that "no one must be subjected to inhuman treatment." //BelaPAN