Alyaksei Shydlouski: «I needed to get through it »

Nearly 10 years have passed since one of the first Belarusian political prisoners Alyaksei Shydlouski was arrested. In early August of 1997 student of journalistic faculty of Belarusian State University Alyaksei Shydlouski was arrested at his parents’ house in Stoubtsy. His friend, who saw him with a violet spray paintcan, gave him in charge. Three days before the Stoubtsy District Executive Committee had been drawn with this paint. “They were especially indignant that we had written ‘executioner‘ on the monument to Felix Dzerzhinsky,” Alyaksei calls back those events.