Sharkaushchyna: detention of journalist Kastys Shytal
On 7 October independent journalist Kastus Shytal was
hitchhiking to his home town, Dzisna. The car in which he was sitting was
stopped by the police. He was told that he resembled the man who war robbing
cars on the road Hlybokaye-Sharkaushchyna.
After this the police made him get into their car. At first he was taken to
Sharkaushchyna, allegedly to show him the stolen things. Then he was taken to
the Miyory District Police Department. Nobody talked to him there for 90
minutes. Then his personal information was put down. The journalist considers
it as an attempt to intimidate him before the tomorrow's action. By the way,
information about the preparation to the People's Assembly in Dzisna and the pressurization
of its organizers was placed at the website westki.info,
one of whose journalists Kastus is.
