Lidziya Autukhovich: "My son was saved by God only..."

The mother of a poliotical prisioner Mikalai Autukhovich learnt about the verdict to her son from journalists.

As informed by Radio Svaboda, Lidziya Autukhovich could not attend the session of the court. As said by her, her heart could simply fail in the court room.

- I know that this verdict is also too much for him, as he is innocent, - Lidziya Autukhovich said. - I would like him to be released, he had come through so many hardships: he was on hunger strike for so long, they humiliated him, he suffered so much. No one supported him there, they were just wating for him to die, but God has saved him from death, as he is innocent. He was born on Christmas, everything was given to him by God. He had never hurt a man, he helped everybody, he never denied help when anyone addressed him, and he was tortured so much for that... Poor him, he has come through so many things, he has lost his health. But we are all in God's hands. And thank God he is alive and well.

- And how do you feel, how is your state?

(She cries)

- How am I? I cry every day, I have endured so much, I have had many sufferings, I had many sleepless nights. There was not a minute for me without tears. I cry as he is tortured for nothing, he is suffering fo rnothing, and his enemies are waiting for his death only. Only God has helped him to pass through this ordeal for him.

Lidziya Autukhovich turns 71 this year, and now she lives alone.

We remind that Mikalai Autukhovich was arrested in February 2009. He has been sentenced to 5 years and 2 months of imprisonement in a maximum security penal colony, Uladizmir Asipenka to 3 years in a standard regime penal colony.

The have been freed from a number of charges -- in preparation of a terrorist attack against the former chairman of Grodna regional executive committee Uladzimir Sauchanka, in an attempt upon the former deputy Taxes and Charges Minister Vasil Kamenka. Only observation with the aim of finding damaging information was proved. The court admitted that the political prisoners haven't committed socially dangerous acts. The charges concerning arson of the former head of the Interior Affairs Directorate of Vaukavysk Syarhei Katsuba in 2004 have been dismissed as well.