One more oppositionist lifted blast suspect status

• 4.12.2008, 8:46

The authorities stopped criminal persecution of Alyaksandr Syarheenka, head of the “Young democrats”.

Henadz Kazakevich, head of the Preliminary Investigation Department of the City Militia Department, informed the young activist about it. He said criminal persecution “over gross hooliganism with use of explosive devices in Minsk” was stopped on November 21 due to absence of absence of crime in the act OF Alyaksandr Syarheenka.

The young activist was suspect in a criminal case over 4 July blast in Minsk. In summer, law enforcement officers in masks broke in a door of an apartment where Alyaksandr live, handcuffed him, hit his head against the floor, and took away with them after a search. Alyaksandr Syarheenka spent some days in the KGB detention facility.

“Nobody apologized to me for bodily injury, broken door, for some days of unlawful detention in jail,” Alyaksandr Syarheenka told in an interview to www.ucpb.org. He takes actions of the secret services towards him and other activists as pressure ahead of the parliamentary campaign, aimed at upsetting of preparation works on creation initiative groups of candidates.

“In my view, unreasonable forceful methods always lead to negative result and prove unprofessionalism and political dependence of Belarusian law enforcement bodies, moreover, no progress has been made in investigation of the blast case,” Alyaksandr Syarheenka said.