Alyaksandr Kamaroiski: “New fake witnesses will be found in case of Autukhovich”

The co-head of the organizing committee on creation a movement of Afghan War veterans calls the case of the Vaukavysk entrepreneurs “plots of the secret services”.

“This is plots of the secret services. They are compassing something, they invent something. People spent six months in jail – it is a criminal article. They should have been released all, or the case should have been sent to court. I think they will continue looking for muddle, looking for fake witnesses,” Alyaksandr Kamarouski told in an interview to “Belorusski Partizan”.

One of the Vaukavysk entrepreneurs Yury Lyavonau was released on August 8. Conditions of his release are unknown, Yury Lyavonau avoids contact with journalists. The investigation of the criminal case against Uladzimir Autukhovich is extended for two months; there is no certain information about Mikalai Autukhovich.

Mikalai Autukhovich, Yury Lyavonau, and Uladzimir Asipenka were detained in February 8. On February 18, the entrepreneurs were charged under article 218 of the Criminal Code (intentional damage to or destruction of property of citizens). On June 23, a criminal case under article 359 of the Criminal Code (a terroristic act) in the form of preparation (article 13) was instigated against Autukhovich and “the repressions”, the Ministry of Internal Affairs reported. The detained are in pre-trial detention center #1 in Minsk.

Mikalai Autukhovich held a three-month hunger strike from April 16 to July 16 demanding to send his case to court as soon as possible or to change a measure of restraint to all detained from custody to release on own recognizance.

Human rights activists consider the detained to be political prisoners drawing attention to the fact that Autukhovich and Lyavonau were convicted before and recognized prisoners of conscience by the international community.