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20:29, — Politics
Officers of secret services tried to recruit a first-year student of informational technologies and management faculty of the Belarusian State University of Informatics and Radioelectronics Paval Lyashkovich.
As the Charther’97 press-centre has been informed by the student himself, he was summoned by the dean of the faculty without any explanations.
“First the dean called me and invited to his office without explanation why. When I came, two more persons were in the office, and the dean left. “Guests” started to ask me as if jokingly, whether I know who they are,” the student told.
The secret service officers asked about political activities of Paval Lyashkovich, and then started to insult him and threaten by expelling from the university.
“Then they asked me about my attitudes to politics, and when I said that I do not belong to any party, they entered my webpage and said that in my communities I have many friends who are oppositionists. They laid it down as a condition for me to continue studies and to collaborate with them, otherwise I would be expelled from the university,” the student quotes the officer.
Documents of Paval Lyashkovich were checked. They offered him “financial support”.
“They looked through my passport. They were especially interested in what I had been doing abroad. And I just had holidays in Poland with my parents. They insisted on my signing a paper where it was written that I would work for secret services under a pseudonym Artsyom, so that they would be able to control me. They even offered to “support me financially” and “help me in my studies”. When I told that I do not need money, they answered that “there is no such a person who does not need money,” he continued.
The interlocutors demanded Paval Lyashkovich to join the Young Front and to be their agent there.
“I was asked whether I would like to join the Young Front. I was to send a message to the website of the organisation at 6 p.m. and ask to join it, first having called the officers of secret services, and then work for secret services being the Young Front member,” he explained.
Paval Lyashkovich refused to sign documents,
As we have informed, recently the crackdown by the regime on young oppositionists has increased: they are intimidated, expelled from universities and threatened by the sack.
For instance, the coordinator of Rechytsa organising committee of the Belarusian Christian democracy Alyaksei Zmushka was expelled from Horki agricultural academy. An activist of Homel branch of the Young Front Andrei Kuzmin was forced to withdraw his documents from school under pressure of the administration. Last year, before the final exam, the deputy leader of the local branch of the Young Front Ivan Shyla was expelled from school No.4 in Salihorsk. There are attempts to draft him forcibly.
Activists of the Young Front Nasta Lojka and Tatsyana Shaputska faced expulsion from the Belarusian State University too. But the BSU rector confined himself by a reprimand only.
In November the 18-yeaR-old oppositionist Stanislau Senakosau was expelled from Mahilyou professional lyceum No. 2.
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