Assault as a kind of investigative actions
An activist of the
Movement "For Freedom" Inha Abramava has come to the
village if Tsikhinichy in the Brest region in order to spend her
vacation with relatives. At about 2 p.m. on 11 October, when she was
peacefully drinking tea and watching TV with her mother, 11-year-old
sister and nephews (2 and 4 years old), she heard an explosion in the
yard.
Inha thought it was a gas explosion and ran out to the
veranda. The girl was speechless when she saw nine masked people in
protective clothing in the yard. The explosion was a shot in their
dog. The people rushed into the house, broke down the door and put
the dwellers on the floor. The mother fainted. As it turned out, she
was hit in the chest with a buttstock and then hit her head against
the wall, as a result of which the assaulters had to call an
ambulance. The kids started sreaming, but this didn't reduce the zeal
of the officers of the Investigation Committee and the riot police.
They spent four hours searching the yard and the house. Nobody knows
what they were looking for there. According to the warrant presented
by them, the “exaination” was held within the framework of the
criminal case against Vital Koush, the husband of her sister, who has
been kept in prison for two years already. The "guests "
put down the information about hte color of the glass in the door,
the color of the wallpaper and whitewash, the height of the
refrigerator, etc.
The lawyer and human rights defender Raman
Kisliak says he does not understand how can some traces of a crime be
looked for in 1.5 years, following serveral searches. Even if it was
done in order to secure the procedure of the confiscation of
property, the appropriate ruling hasn't come into force yet. Raman
Kisliak considers the actions of the law enforcement agencies as
completely illegal and unreasonable and views them as an additional
pressure on the Abramaus.
Following the assault and search,
Inha Abramava was also served a summons for an interrogation.
