Rag with Poland: chairperson of the Union of Poles in Belarus detained
1- 11.10.2007, 10:28
The police of Grodna detained journalist of magazine Magazyn Polski Na Emigracji Igar Bantsar. The member of the Polish minority of Belarus was taken to the police department. An hour later, editor of the magazine Andrzei Pachobut said chairperson of the Union of Poles in Belarus Anzhalika Borys had been detained when she had tried to visit Igar Bantsar.
Polish Chancellor General Andrzei Krentouski came to the Leninski district interior department as Anzhallika Borys – chairperson of the Union of Poles not recognized by the authorities - was detained, and left around midnight on October 10.
According to assistant of Borys, Mechyslau Yaskevich, Ms Borys demanded a lawyer. Nevertheless, services of a state lawyer were proposed, and then she simply had to spend the night in an isolation cell. The accusation is common: according to police officers, she used “coarse language.”
In the statement by Poland’s Foreign Ministry, the Polish part expresses “concern and protest against the illegal detention” of Igar Bantsar and Anzhalika Borys.
“The actions of the Belarusian powers contradict their desire to maintain good neighboring relations with Poland,” the statement of the Polish Foreign Ministry says.
Today Anzhalika Borys will be tried by the Leninski district court of Grodna.
