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16-year-old girl arrested in connection with Swedish teddy bears “bombing”?

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16-year-old girl arrested in connection with Swedish teddy bears “bombing”?

Katyaryna Skurat has been detained by the KGB. Her mobile phone is not available at the moment.

According from information on Facebook, Katyaryna Skurat, 16, was detained by KGB officers yesterday. As charter97.org managed to learn, the girl is suspected to have been the first to take photos of the “Swedish assault” and send pictures to Anton Surapin, who later posted them on his website bnp.by.

As charter97.org already reported, Anton Surapin, 20, was detained  on the morning of July 13 for publishing photos of Swedish teddy bears. He is suspected of aiding in illegal crossing the state border. Syarhei Bashamirau, who was to rent an apartment to the Swedes, who later cancelled reservation by via SMS, who detained. Both detainees may face up to 7 years in prison.

Studio Total, a Swedsih PR agency, informed via its website on July 4 that a performance to support democracy in Belarus had been held. Swedish citizens overflew the Lithuanian-Belarusian border on a light plane, reached Minsk and returned. The aircraft dropped 876 teddy bears with free-speech leaflets over the outskirts of Minsk and the town of Ivyanets in the Valozhyn district of the Minsk region.

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