Andrei Haidukou meets lawyer

Andrei Haidukou, Navapolatsk pro-democratic activist arrested by the KGB, met his counsel in the KGB detention center in Minsk. According to his mother Volha, he is well, looking good, and has no health problems. Apart from that, he has received a parcel from home. Andrei also started to get newspapers, Radio Racyja reports.

According to the prisoner’s mother, no investigation into her son’s has been recently carried out. She said that Andrei’s position has not changed – he does not admit his guilt. Andrei Haidukou, 23, is accused of treason in the form of intelligence activities.

“He has his own opinion, he is in the opposition. That is all, and what is he to blame for? Nobody of our immediate environment, and in general no sane people, in my opinion, believes it. This is just ridiculous. We do not know, of course, what they are plotting there. He does not admit his guilt and will never do, even if there is something under pressure, no one will believe it anyway, especially since we, the parents, do not doubt that he is not guilty,” says Volha Haidukova.

The KGB press-service said earlier that Haidukou was detained in the making a dead drop with data of political and economic nature, which may be of interest to foreign secret services.

Andrei Haidukou worked at the Navapolatsk-based refinery. Simultaneously, he was engaged in civil activities. He was one of the founders of the “Union of Young Intellectuals”. During the presidential election of 2010, he was activist of Andrei Sannikau’s campaign team.

Apart from Andrei Haidukou, there is another suspect in the criminal case – his friend and member of the Young Intellectuals Ilya Bahdanau.