Belarusian oppositionist Kovalenko asks for pardon
Sergey Kovalenko, May 2012 The Belarusian oppositionist Sergei Kovalenko, who was imprisoned, wrote a petition for pardon. According to his wife Elena, after a three -day date with her husband in the colony, in the petition Sergey wrote only three words: "I ask you to have mercy on me." According to Elena, he did this when he felt what the family and society needed at large, and not in prison. Sergei Kovalenko informed his wife that he had a pressure repeatedly on him to ask for pardon.