Dziyanau’s girlfriend: I was threatened with taking me to woods, publication of my nude pictures

• 4.05.2012, 10:49

Marharyta Lavyshyk has published a video address, in which she told about the pressure of special services she had to go through.

“On April 18, 2012 my girlfriend Marharyta was to visit me,” Vyachaslau Dziyanau writes in his blog, Nasha Niva reports.

“She had all her things packed, and had the ticket for Minsk-Warsaw bus bought. However, our plans were not destined to be realized.”

We agreed to talk on the Skype at the noon on that day. I received a message at that time: “There are the unknown persons near the house, I am afraid.” “What should I do? My neighbours say that they have been there since morning, and that I should not stir out of the house.”

I answered through Skype immediately. Marharyta’s voice was frightened, and she had only one question: “What should I do?”

My girl was not connected to opposition, and she certainly was not an activist of any movement. She had not been interrogated ever, or subjected to detention in all her born days.

However, by some quirk of fate on that day she actually saw what the mass media called “the crackdown by the system”. A blue minibus Volkswagen Transporter with smoked glass stood near her windows. It is a standard vehicle of police special forces.

The first thing I said was: “Please calm down”. In 30 minutes we decided that the roommate of Marharyta, a girl, could leave the house and look around.

As soon as Krystsina left the house, people in mufti came up to her. It could be heard on the phone how it was happening, as the girls were talking on the phone at the moment. In less than five minutes the entrance door opened with a bang, and 5 persons in mufti ran into the flat. The last thing I heard from my girl on Skype were the words: “On what grounds could you enter the house? Where are you dragging me to? Who are you?”

Dziyanau believes that the law-enforcers who detained Lavyshyk did not expected Skype to be running at the moment of detention, and the first reports about the detention to be posted by Belarusian online mass media 5 minutes after the detention.

Some Aleh Byahunou (Oleg Viktorovich Begunov) was in charge of Marharyta’s detention. As said by Dziyanau, on the way to the police department he uttered threats to the girls, he said they would be taken to the woods and executed. Marharyta tells about that during the video address as well.

“Marharyta was taken to the police department of Maskouski district, and taken to the first floor. KGB officers were already waiting for her there. They immediately started aggressive interrogation. She was interrogated by two officers,” Dziyana writes.

The interrogation lasted for 8 hours.

“As a result,” Dziyanau informs, “She was forced to read out a text from a paper. It was said that she actively supports activities of the Revolution Through Social Networks, allegedly receives money from me, and that I am “a bad person.”

“There were threats they would imprison Marharyta for 15 days, and 8-hour interrogations would be held every day,” Dziyanau writes. “Under this pressure the girl finally agreed to do the things they demanded. However, they did not force her to sign any papers, or impel into cooperation. After the humiliating interrogation the girls were taken to the infamous remand prison in Akrestsin Street. They were kept there till morning. Incarceration conditions in Akrestsin Street prison have been described many times, so I would not go into much detail, I just want to note that Marharyta has developed serious problems with her back because of cold after just one night there, and the pain has not gone up to this moment.

In the morning the girls were taken to the court, and judge Tastyana Motyl, well-known for trials against political activists, and banned from entering the European Union for that, sentenced Marharyta to a fine of 15 basic units.

Marharyta admitted fault, as right at court a police guard explained her that otherwise she would have to spend 15 more days in Akrestsin Street. It is clear that the inexperienced girl was ready to admit everything just not to return to that hell,” the guy tells. “After release, Marharyta wanted just one thing: to meet me as soon as possible. At midnight she bought a ticket to Moscow-Warsaw train.”

However, at 5 a.m. Marharyta was detrained at the border crossing Brest-Terespol for personal search.

“As a result,” Dziyanau writes, “her notebook was seized. It was the same notebook KGB “experts” had in their hands a day earlier. There probably was something important for them there… After the computed was seized, Marharyta was placed into the commuter train Brest-Terespol. I met her in Terespol, Poland,” Dziyanau told.

In her video address Marharyta told that Belarusian KGB officers continue to blackmail her, via the internet.

They threatened to publish her personal pictures. The matter is, Marharyta had a dream. She wanted to start a career as a model, that is why before her departure to Warsaw she visited Znyata photo studio And made nude pictures.

Dziyanau and Lavyshyk decided to post one of the pictures sent by the KGB to her and accompanied by blackmailing treats. Marharyta’s address has been published on the web as well. She disproves all her testimony against Dziyanau and the Revolution Through Social Networks.

She says that it had been made under duress. The girl states that she just had been forced to read out those phantasies in front of the camera, and believes that it would be shown on BT and ONT channels as well.

Dziyanau writes that such a war against the loved ones of dissenters causes nothing but his “anger and desire to continue struggle and all-out attack against such people!”

“I have not been crushed, I have not signed any documents, and any cooperation [with the KGB] is out o the question,” Marharyta Lavyshyk says in her video address.