page_title: Siarhei Kavalenka
section_title: Prison sentence
hierarchical_section_title: Siarhei Kavalenka / Prison sentence
caption_attribution_description: Беларуская: Сяргей Каваленка — беларускі палітычны актывіст, член КХП-БНФ. English: Siarhei Kavalenka is a Belarusian political activist and member of the Conservative Christian Party
context_page_description: Siarhei Kavalenka is a Belarusian political activist and member of the Conservative Christian Party sentenced for 2 years in prison after placing a white-red-white flag on top of a Christmas tree in Vitsebsk in 2010.
context_section_description: In late 2011 Kavalenka was again arrested and accused of violating the conditions of his suspended sentence. As a protest against the arrest, on 19 December 2010 he started a hunger strike. The hunger strike was interrupted by force-feeding on 16 January 2012.
  On February 24 Kavalenka was sentenced to 25 months of prison by judge Elena Zhuk and prosecutor Dmitry Lutov.
caption: Siarhei Kavalenka after his long term hunger-strike in a cage in a court room
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