Youth can’t be stopped

• 3.12.2007, 10:51

Minsk members of the Young Front visited their colleague in Polatsk Kasya Salauyova on Sunday. A criminal case on “disrespect to state symbols” (we remind, a red-green flag was burnt near the Polatsk prosecutor’s office) was brought up against the girl and investigation on the article 193/1 – “participation in unregistered organisation” was initiated.

According to the Young Front member Lyudmila Atakulava, Kasya doesn’t plan to stop public activity in spite of severe persecution. “Whatever the events be, it will lie on conscience of the officials and the regime,” Lyudmila noted.

During the visit it found out that friends of the Young Front activist were pressed and intimidated: “My friend was so frightened during the search, that she is afraid to speak with me; two 14-year old boys I know, who threatened by expulsion from gymnasium, said they would testify against me on the trial... But the main thing for me is that my parents support me. They understand me, don’t scold, they support me much, I am truly grateful to them,” Kasya Sakauyova said.

It should be added that together with the Young Front members journalist of the newspaper “Belarusy i Rynok” Gebadz Barbarych and human right activist Lyudmila Graznova visited Kasya Salauyova.

As Charter’97 has already informed, the youth activist was detained a week ago. The detention was very cruel, people in civvies threw the girl down on dirty asphalt and held her down until the police came. The next day her room in the hostel was searched, and later the information appeared that the A student would be groundless expelled from Polatsk State University.