Have charges to Haidukou been changed?
The arrested civil activist is being
transferred from Minsk to Vitsebsk. Andrei
Haidukou's mother
received this information from a lawyer, RFE/RL reports.
“I asked a lawyer to apply for a
meeting with my son to discuss his case. The lawyer called me and
said that he was being transferred to Vitsebsk. She learned it from
investigator Aleh
Barysevich. I don't know
what to think. They told earlier that he was taken to Minsk because
there is no KGB detention facility in Vitsebsk, where he had been
detained. It turns out now that he may be kept in Vitsebsk. Maybe the
charges have been changed? Or they decided to move him because the
investigator from Vitsebsk has to go to Minsk. One can only guess.
The lawyer doesn't know any details,” Volha
Haidukova says.
She
hopes the lawyer will manage to see Andrei Haidukou next week and
clear up the situation. She hasn't received any letters from her son,
though he wrote them. She doesn't know the Vitsebsk address to write
to him.
Andrei Haidukou was thrown into the KGB jail in Minsk
after being detained in Vitsebsk 20 days ago. The 23-year-old worker
of the “Naftan” plant is charged with spying. Officially, the guy
was detained as he was “putting a dead drop with the information
interesting for foreign secret services”. Many find the accusation
absurd. European Belarus civil campaign released a statement saying
that the activist was detained for distributing Charter'97 newspaper.
Human rights activists link the prosecution of Haidukou to his
pro-opposition views and say it was an attempt to intimidate young
activists.
