Aliaksandar Atroschankau's wife is not allowed to see her husband

Wife of democratic activist Aliaksandar Atroschankau Dar’a is trying to enter the apartment in order to see her husband but people in police uniform do not let her in. “I was pushed away violently by the police. They said that there were too many people in the apartment and that they will make it themselves,” Atroschankau’s wife told Charter’97.

Police officers burst into the apartment of democratic activist Aliaksandar Atroschankau at 19.10. First they knocked at the doors and demanded to let them in for one hour, and then they penetrated into the apartment located on the first storey (!) through a window. As Aliaksandar Atroschankau told press-center of Charter 97, the police said they had got an anonymous telephone call saying there was a dead body in the apartment. Nevertheless, the police was interested only in the computers. The apartment is being searched. It is obvious that the intrusion was politically motivated. Atroschankau left his cell phone on when the police burst in, and we could hear the police threatening him and demanding information materials on the European March. Then the phone was switched off…