Kavalyou’s mother demands to give her back notes of her executed son

After the execution of her son, Liubou Kavalyouva received a parcel with his things from the KGB remand prison.

But the notes of Uladzislau had made, have disappeared.

As the human rights centre Viasna informs, Liubou Kavalyova had written a complaint addressed to the head of the KGB remand prison, where Uladzislau Kavalyou and Dzmitry Kanavalau, accused of terrorism, were kept. After the execution the mother received a parcel with her son’s things. It had been sent by post from the KGB remand prison. But the notes disappeared: the yellow file he took into the court with him, was empty.

The mother believes the investigation and the court which sentenced Kanavalau and Kavalyou to death penalty, were not objective. And she does not exclude that there could be some information in the yellow file which the KGB remand prison representatives do not want to make public.

“Ulad visited court sessions with this file. He was getting ready for each of them, and in fact these notes were read out at court. But there could be something else in the file: for instance, notes made while he had been reading the court case papers for writing a cassation appeal. Or there could be some notes about violations of the incarceration conditions, about tortures, and that the guys had been beaten… The file was empty, and I did not receive any documents like stating that the notes of my son had been destroyed in accordance with a legal procedure. Could they be stolen by someone? Let the KGB remand prison look into the matter and give me an answer.”

Under the law, Liubou Kavalyouva is to receive an answer within 15 days. But she is not sure she would be written anything.

“My previous complaints had been ignored by the KGB remand prison as well. I addressed them several times on the occasions of lost warranties of authority. Warranties of authority were made twice, for me to be able on behalf of Uladzislau, and they disappeared twice, but when the KGB remand prison administration was to legalize them. I did not receive an answer to my complaints, those warranties of authority were never found. When they were not needed any more, I received a formal reply that a usual notary officer can legalize the warranty… So I will not be surprised if I would not receive an answer now.”

However, Liubou Kavalyova is set to insist: in case the notes are not received from the KGB remand prison, she is going to address other agencies. She finds it necessary to find out information about her son’s notes for two reasons: firstly, she does not want them to become a means of blackmailing or illicit gain in some wrong hands. And secondly, she hopes that someday new circumstances would be found out concerning the blast in Minsk metro, and investigation would be wakened.

Liubou Kavalyova believes that her son had been punished unjustly, and hopes that he would be exonerated once, though posthumously.”