Illia Bahdanau summonsed to KGB again
According to the head of the unregistered Union
of Young Intellectuals Yauhen Kanstantsinau, Illia Bahdanau, a
witness in the "high treason case" against Andrei Haidukou,
has been summonsed to KGB again.
KGB officers kept paying
visits to Illia's work, and then presented him with an official
summons to interrogation, at which they threatened to make him
another suspect in the case.
"A week ago he was
summonsed to Vitsebsk, questioned in Andrei's case and told that
there were discrepancies between his testimony and that of Andrei
Haidukou, that's why he could be summonsed to the next interrogation
as a suspect. Yesterday Illia was issued with a summons to an
interrogation in Vitsebsk on 10 January. The discrepancies in the
testimonies let them make Illia an accused. It's hard to say whether
he would be put in custody or let go after the interrogation,"
commented Yauhen Kanstantsinau.
The main defendant in the
case, 23-year-old deputy head of the "Union of Young
Intellectuals" Andrei Haidukou is currently kept in the
pre-trial prison of the KGB. He was detained by KGB officers in
Vitsebsk on 8 November, "while making a hiding place with
information which could be useful for foreign intelligence services.
He faces 7-15 years of imprisonment.
