What for does KGB need a guitar?
A civic activist from Asipovichy, Ihar Simbirou, has
not been returned his guitar seized by the KGB during a search almost a year
ago.
His diaries and netbook have not been returned either.
Trials in the criminal case of “mass disorders” ended long time ago, but
Simbirou can only guess why KGB officers need his private belongings.
“I applied to different departments and divisions of the KGB and police. I
filed complaints, but these actions gave no results,” Ihar Simbirou says. “I
only figured out my things are in the GB department for Minsk
and the Minsk
region. I call them every week and receive a standard answer: you should wait,
your belongings will be returned to you, we are acting in accordance with the
law and so on. I do not understand why KGB needs my guitar, diaries with my
songs, a netbook with footage of my concerts. I am a musician, I need these
things.”
On 19 December 2010, Ihar Simbirou was in a column of Uladzimir Niakliayeu,
which was later attacked by “unknown men” in black. He was detained in Minsk on the night of 20
December. Under the court decision, Ihar Simbirou was thrown into a jail in
Zhodzina for 15 days. While he was serving his arrest, police searched the flat
he had hired in Minsk
and seized his property.
Ihar Simbirou thinks KGB officers do not return his belonging because they want
to show who has power in this situation.
“A KGB officer told me: ‘We’ll return your belonging when we want’. Can we
speak about execution of the law here?”
