Lyabedzka interrogated in prosecutor’s office in Valozhyn case

On February 23 the leader of the United Civil Party Anatol Lyabedzka was summoned to the prosecutor’s office of Minsk region.

As the politician told to BelaPAN, the senior investigator of the prosecutor’s office Alyaksandar Azarevich was interested by the details of his voyage to Valozhyn district of Minks region.

We remind that Lyabedzka was detained on February 15 in the morning in Valozhyn near a military base, where the trial over the head of Ivyanets branch of the Union of Poles in Belarus Tereza Sobal was held. She had been charged with seizure of the Polish House in Ivyanets. Lyabedzka was making pictures of policemen’s actions by his mobile phone. Policemen prevented activists of the independent UPB enter the territory of the military base.

“When the time of my arrest exceeded three hours, I started to demand explanations, but nobody could give me explanations. At 5 p.m. a deputy prosecutor of the district appeared, he took my appeal concerning my illegal forcible detention with seizing of my things. After I was taken to the court, it turned out that I am charged under article 23 of the Administrative Code (staging an unsanctioned meeting and hindering work of the court). But judge immediately said that he won’t consider the administrative case, as after studying materials of the case he decided to forward it to the prosecutor’s office of Valozhyn district for initiation of a criminal case,” Lyabedzka said.

The politician spent in Valozhyn police department about 9 hours.

As said by Lyabedzka, the conversation in Minsk regional prosecutor’s office hadn’t elucidated his status in “Valozhyn case”.

“Clear light is to be shed upon the situation in 10 days, or in a month, if the term of studying the materials of the case would be extended,” he said. Lyabedzka explains his summons to the proscutor’s office as a “factor of psychological pressure”.