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Declaration about those arrested for Russian embassy, Minsk
soli needed with rus and belarus - 08.09.2010 13:24
September, 3, 2010, early in the morning, Belarus police and special
service men (“KGB”) arrested several guys and girls suspected in being
involved into the case with Russian embassy in Minsk attacked on August,
30.
Declaration about those arrested in connection with the case of Russian
embassy in Minsk
The detention was very much like a kidnapping, because
law-enforcement bodies did not release any information and for a long
time friends and relatives were unaware about the location of the arrested.
Later it became known that the arrested were held in Minsk isolation
ward. Belarus law says that person may be detained for 72 hours without
bringing up a charge. This term expired on September, 6. However, public
prosecutor prolonged it for three days more. As of now, seven friends of
ours are arrested: Igor Bogachek, Valeriya Khotina, Sergey Sliusar,
Nikolay Dedok, Alexey Zhingerovsky, Alexander Frantskevich and Anton
Laptenok.
Moreover, today at 12 a.m. the police detained Tatyana Semenischeva
within the same case. We still do not know whether she is accused of
anything or was interrogated as an eye-witness.
The arrests happened after on September, 2 Belarus Indymedia
( http://belarus.indymedia.org) published a declaration by before unknown
anarchist group “Freedom Friends”. The group took responsibility for
bombing Russian embassy in Minsk with Molotov cocktail and stated that
they supported those who defended Khimki forest.
The news was soon removed as doubtful. It should be noted that Indymedia
is a website with free posting, and its news pieces are created by
visitors. To post anything you only have to register. We remind that on
August 31 night someone threw two Molotov cocktails to the territory of
Russian embassy in Minsk. One of cars parked there was damaged. No
people suffered. Law-enforcement bodies of Belarus announced that they
started investigating the case as arson and hooliganism.
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Tatiana Seminischeva who was detained yesterday ( http://belarus.indymedia.org/20759) thinks the reason for the
house-check conducted at her flat is suspicion in copartnership in
attack on the Okrestino temporary detention facility at the night of
September 6th. In the course of the house-check a mobile phone, a hard
disc and a USB were extracted. After a talk with the officers of the
law-enforcement agencies Tatiana was dismissed.
Friends of Freedom group took responsibility for the attack on the
Okrestino temporary detention facility. They had put another statement
on the website of the Belarusian Indymedia where it was deleted due to
the suspicion in falsity. As is said in the statement: “We take
responsibility for all the recent radical actions and assert the
guiltless, whom we even don't know, are being accused of”. The activity
of many internet media is being observed now. In the statement of the
Belapan news agency, published there, it is said that the criminal case
upon the attack is commenced under part 2 Article 399 of the Criminal
Code (malicious hooliganism).
The headlines on the biggest news portals state that the representatives
of the law-enforcement agencies have confirmed the information. Though
in the same message it is written that the Prosecutor General's Office
of the Minsk City Executive Committee have no comments on the
situation”. According to the Radio Svaboda , the attendant of the
pretrial detention centre disproved the fact of the attack, saying “this
information is not correct”. Besides, as our people report, yesterday on
Okrestino there were no traces of the combustion or fresh paint.
Therefore, we consider the information on attack unreliable and
provocative because this action is just an excuse for the further
repressions towards people with an active civic-mindedness in the run-up
to the presidential elections in Belarus.
We remind that seven people are in charge now being suspected in attack
on the Russian Embassy on August 30,, 2010. As we have already reported,
their detention term was prolonged without any accusations. It may mean
the absence of any evidence implicating their copartnership in the incident.
Friends and relatives of those arrested
Contacts — minsksolidarity[at]riseup.net
| | Seven "we" about seven detainees‏ | nn - 08.09.2010 19:46
Evening of September, 7 some internet media (such as BELTA Belarusian
telegraph agency) have published information according to which in the
flat of the detained anarchists ostensibly «were found and extracted
patrons, plant-based drugs, masks with slots for eyes, literature
promulgating the ideas of anarchism».
We, the friends of those arrested, assert with dead certainty this
information is a cynical lie, an attempt to blow out the interest of
society to this case by presenting detained activists as trivial
criminals or inadequate persons.
We note that information in media concerning our friends is changing
everyday . At first, they were accused of the attack on the Russian
Embassy, now they are suspected in copartnership in attempts of damaging
property of the Belarusbank branch bank and the House of Trade Unions in
Minsk on April, 30. What accusation will be next?
We also don't understand how «the masks with slots for eyes, literature
promulgating the ideas of anarchism» can be a proof of our friends'
copartnership to the damaging property of the Belarusbank branch bank
and the House of Trade Unions. We demand facts.
We demand the law-enforcement agencies to delate concerning whom a
criminal case in illicit trafficking in drugs is commenced.
We are absolutely sure: seven detainees had nothing to do with drugs,
they did not use, keep, produce or distribute them. Instead of this,
they led a healthy way of life and went in for sports, promoted student
self-government at their universities, were concerned about conflicts at
factories, ecological problems, human rights and free access to information.
We think the reason for their detention is their views and convictions.
Being non-indifferent to the problems of society, they were not afraid
to express their opinions, opposite to the official ones. Only because
of this they became known to the secret service but not because for what
they are accused now.
Friends and relatives of those arrested
Contacts — minsksolidarity[at]riseup.net
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