Two more oppositionists released

Opposition activists Syarhei Vysotski and Alyaksandr Serhienka, detained over the case of blasts on 4 July, were released from the KGB detention center on Saturday.

Syarhei Vysotski, a coordinator of the Belarusian National Democratic Center in Kyiv, told to Radio Svaboda, he was detained on 10 July after the search in his apartment. The oppositionist was a suspect in the case of the bomb blast on 4 July over article 339 part 3 (malicious hooliganism).

“Prison guards watched the cell every five minutes, and called me a terrorist among them,” Syarhei Vysotski said.

Syarhei had some interrogations, where he was asked what he had done at night 3/4 July. But Vysotski had an alibi. KGB investigator made him give a written undertaking not to leave the place and not to divulge the secrecy of the investigation.

According to Vysotski, Alyaksandr Serhienka, one of the leaders of the Young Democrats, the youth wing of the United Civil Party, was released, too.

As the Charter’97 press center has already informed, Paval Kuryanovich, activist of the “European Belarus” civil campaign, was released yesterday. He was detained by KGB officers on 10 July on a suspicion of implication in bomb blast in Minsk during a concert on the official Independence Day.

Paval Kuryanovich said after the release he didn’t see any people, detained over the blast case; he was alone in a cell in the KGB pretrial detention center.

According to Kuryanovich, he was interrogated only one time. He was asked what he had done at night 3/4 July. Kuryanovich said he had an alibi, which was proved by the KGB check.

As Paval Kuryanovich think, the persecution and detentions of democratic activists are connected with the electoral campaign.