Director of firm, for which Mikalai Autukhovich worked, arrested
21- 7.07.2009, 14:00
Director of the Vaukavysk firm Nika-Taxi 22222 Lyudmila Paremskaya was detained by officers of militia and special purpose squad Almaz from Minsk. The office of the firm was searched, documents were seized.
Radio Svaboda learnt this from human rights activist Aleh Vouchak.
The press service of the Ministry of Internal Affairs doesn’t comment on detention of Lyudmila Paremskaya.
Lyudmila Paremskaya was questioned two times after arrests of former director of Nika-Trans, a transportation firm in Vaukavysk, Mikalai Autukhovich and his two employees Yury Lyavonau and Uladzimir Asipenka. Human rights activists reported that the businesswoman was asked to say information that would be used in the case of Autukhovich, Lyavonau, and Asipenka. It is unknown if any accusation will be brought against Lyudmila Paremskaya. According to her family, she managed to say he was being guarded to a prison in Minsk.
“I relate detention of Paremskaya with the fact that the case of Autukhovich is falling apart. They have no proofs and look for any hook. It may be even stealing macaroni from a shop! I am convinced they will fail. The case should be closed and the innocent people should be freed,” former investigator Aleh Vouchak thinks.
Entrepreneurs from Vaukavysk Mikalai Autukhovich, Yury Lyavonau, and Uladzimir Asipenka were detained on February 8 and guarded to pre-trial detention center #1 of the city militia department of the Minsk city executive committee.
Protesting against criminal persecution and the fact the case is not being investigated, Mikalai Autukhovich went on hunger strike on April 16. The political prisoner demands to send the case to court or release him, Yury Lyavonau and Uladzimir Asipenka on their own recognizance. Autukhovich is on hunger strike for the 82nd day. His life is in serious danger.
Human rights activists consider the detainees to be political prisoners drawing attention to the fact that Mikalai Autukhovich and Yury Lyavonau were convicted before and were recognized prisoners of conscience by the international community.
