Hrodna: police are after Mikola Markevich’s sons

On 11 July Hrodna journalist, former political prisoner Mikola Markevich informed RFE/RL that his sons Aliaksei and Mikola are summonsed to the police.

On 10 July the wife of the latter son gave birth to a daughter. The investigator Yury Abramau phoned to the maternity hospital and asked her to give the husband’s mobile number. He said that Mikola was hiding from the police.

Mikola Markevich thinks that the writs to the police are connected with the campaign of state terror which was started with the 4 July blast in Minsk. He states that such actions insult the honor and dignity of the whole family, as his son have no relation to such actions.