KGB terrorizing Natallya Radzina’s family

The editor of charter97.org phoned her mother today and told her she was in Europe.

Local KGB officers and an investigator from Minsk visited Natallya Radzina’s parents at home in Kobryn. They searched the house and seized the journalist’s notebooks, letters of solidarity from around the world, including from former Czech president Vaclav Havel and Foreign Minister of Slovakia Mikuláš Dzurinda. They also seized a computer of Natallya Radzina’s minor nephew.

From the journalist’s house KGB officers came to her father’s work allegedly for another questioning. Natallya Radzina’s parents, brother and aunt have been called to questioning during this week since Natallya left the country.

The editor of charter97.org phoned her parents today and said she was in a refugee camp in a European country.

“Natasha promised to phone again in some days and say where she was. She said the last formalities with granting political asylum to her were underway. She had a cheerful voice and asked us to stand firm. If we survived the prison together, we will be able to go through these unlawful and unscrupulous attacks on our family. Look what a criminal they’ve found – a journalist! I was very happy to hear her voice. I am quieter now,” Nadzezhda Radzina, the journalist’s mother, said.

We remind that after spending over a month in the KGB jail, Natallya Radzina was sent to “exile” in Kobryn under condition of not to leave the town. She is accused under two parts of article 293 of the Criminal Code (mass riot). She may face up to 15 years in prison.

She was to appear before a KGB investigator in Minsk for interrogation, where she could have been presented final accusations in the case “Square 2010”. Natallya decided not to wait for this to happen and left Belarus.