Military Prosecutor’s Office deluged by complaints at tortures in KGB jail

The wife of political prisoner Alyaksandr Atroshchankau had been summoned to lieutenant colonel Khalimov, the investigator of special cases from the investigation department of the Belarusian Military Prosecutor’s Office.

“They wanted to question me in connection with my complaints concerning ill-treatment of my husband in the KGB jail,” Daria Korsak explained Belsat.

Daria went to the prosecutor’s office with human rights defender Alena Tankachova to prevent “possible pressure from the secret services”. The investigator insisted that under the Criminal Procedure Code, only a lawyer can be a legal representative. Korsak refused to talk to the investigator without a lawyer.

Human rights activist Alena Tankachova told lieu. col. Khalimau that she had something to say in relation to the case. “I was offered to write a complaint, and I did so. I descried the facts of tortures of Alyaksnadr Atroshchankau, Ales Mikhaleivch, Andrei Sannikov, and Uladzimir Nyaklyaeu. I wrote down everything they said at press conferences, in media and during trials,” Alena Tankachova said. The human rights activist noted in her complaint that presidential candidate Uladzimir Nyaklayeu filed the materials about tortures to the United Nations.

So, the prosecutor’s office has to check four episodes of illegal actions in relation to political prisoners, the human rights defender notes. Alena Tankachova calls on relatives of the convicted persons, who know about tortures, to file complains to the Military Prosecutor’s office demanding to investigate these facts.

Alyaksei Mikhaevich was the first to tell the public about tortures in the KGB jail. Later, this information was confirmed by another KGB inmate Alyaksandr Atroshchankau. Presidential candidate Andrei Sannikov said at the trial he had been tortured.