Christian democrats questioned in blast case

• 27.08.2008, 12:58

Officers of criminal investigation questioned leaders of the organising committee on creation a civil organisation “Belarusian Christian Democracy” (BCD) in the case of 4 July blast in Minsk.

As the BCD press service reported on 27 August, criminal investigation officers were interested in members of the organising committee Alyaksei Shein and Dzyinis Sadouski as well as in other organising committee members for the last 5 days.

On 26 August, co-chair of the organising committee A. Shein was questioned by militia captain Alyaksandr Akushka from the Valozhyn district criminal investigation. The militia officer explained to the politician that the reason for the questioning was administrative case of mass street actions, he was convicted last year. A. Akushka asked if A. Shein had some relation to the blast in Minsk, BelaPAN writes.

Co-chair of the organising committee refused to be fingerprinted and have DNA expertise, as he wasn’t suspected.

“in spite of unwillingness to meet with militia officers, their insistence oversteps the bounds,” Dzyanis Sadouski, executive secretary of the organisation, visited by a militiaman at home to be fingerprinted and taken saliva specimen for DNA expertise. A militia officer explained the necessity of D. Sadouski’s questioning by the fact the latter was one of the applicants for holding of a picket in the frames of the campaign “For Freedom of Conscience” in 2007.