Kobryn: Ales Mekh detained for talking
The civil activist Aliaksandr Mekh was
detained by the police officer Anatol Dzhyha for discussing the state
debts of Belarus in a queue for fluorography.
Ales Mekh was
simply talking with a neighbor about the new debts of Belarus and
stated that the next generation would have no future because of the
need to pay off these debts.
According to Mr. Mekh, the
policeman led him out of the polyclinic and called to the KGB.
At
about 2 p.m. a police car arrived instead of a KGB car. Ales Mekh was
taken to the Kobryn District Police Department. Dzhyha went away to
draw a violation report on the detainee, whereas Mekh was approached
by a KGB officer who started talking about something which had no
relation to the talk in the queue. The activist told him that he
needed to know the state language and talk in it in case he really
defended the security of the Belarusian state. This was the end of
the talk.
According to the Kobryn DPD, Anatol Dzhyha is a
police inspector and has the rank of major. Ales Mekh was released
from the DPD after writing an explanatory note.
