Searched by KGB yesterday – beaten up by unknown today

19-year-old dweller of Navapolatsk Dzmitry Ryzhychenka told how the unknown attacked him in the archway near his house.

They did not take his things or money, just beat him, Radio Racyja infiorms.

The guy does not exclude that the attack could be caused by information about attempts to recruit him by the KGB officers publicized by him yesterday:

“I was on my way home, with a hood on my head and headphones in my ears. That is why I didn’t notice anything. I came to senses when I was already on the ground; I felt several blows on the neck and in kidney area on the both sides. When I raised my head, there was no one around. Oddly enough, this all happened near the house I live in, everybody knows me there, and such things had never happened before.”

Dzmitry Ryzhychenka believes that the reason for the attack could be information about attempts to recruit him by the KGB. Dzmitry told independent journalists that different people had been calling him throughout a year. They said they were KGB officers. They invited him to meet and “share information” about sentiments among his friends, and about what his mother, a member of the Belarusian Popular Front and an activist of “For Freedom” movement, Volha Damaskina, was doing.

The guy refused to cooperate, saying that he does not have information which could be interesting for the secret police. He hadn’t told about attempts of recruitment until yesterday, when the flat where he lives was searched by policemen and the KGB.

It was written in the search warrant that “he could have been involved in drawing graffiti” “propagating antisocial ideals and values, giving offence to human dignity and morality. The case relating drawings and graffiti, though the guy had not been explained which exactly, was opened in April 2010. Now, almost two years later, a system block of a computer was seized from the flat, a notebook, several CDs and a spray can with white paint with which his parents planned to cover some spots on the washing machine, were seized.

Dzmitry Ryzhychenka says that KGB officers did not hide that they would create problems for him at the polytechnics college. He is a thirds year student there. The administration of the educational institution had already offered him to submit his resignation of his own volition, as people from the KGB had come to the college. They said Dzmitry is “a fascist” and “a Belarusian Popular Front member”.

It is enough to have two reprimands to be expelled from the college. The first one, was made a few years ago. The young man and his parents had to challenge the reprimand now. It is not regarded valid, as Dzmitry had not been offered to read it and he had not signed appropriate documents.

“The son complains that he has a headache. We are going seek help from a medical institution. We called out police to the site of the occurrence. They questioned Dzmitry closely, but we do not have any suspicions. Now we are going to file an application to the police department,” Volha Damaskina said.