KGB Agents Force Siarhei Palcheuski To Sign Cooperation Agreement

The defendant in the “patriots case” claims he was under pressure.

The “Young Front” leader Zmitser Dashkevich has written this at Facebook on behalf of Siarhei Palcheuski. The full text of the confession has been published by the “Young Front” community.

“Dear friends, I want to confess to you. Let everyone judge me as they wish. Today, I am confessing of having signed the cooperation agreement with the KGB.

During the very first interrogation, for which I was delivered to the central apparatus of the KGB, I had a conversation with two KGB men, without the presence of the lawyer. They started demanding that I should tell them something connected with the “patriots case” straightaway. I refused. Then they started blackmailing me.

They threatened me with criminal persecution and extra term of imprisonment for the road accident with my participation. The point is, this February I was driving a car and ran over a woman on the pedestrian cross-walk. Thank God, the road accident resulted in no fractures, but the injuries were qualified as the ones of lower severity, and for this, a criminal case could be started against me under the claim of the casualty.

They also threatened to publish some intimate details of my personal life. Frankly speaking, I had no idea what they were talking about. Now I recall that unknown people sent me messages in the social networks several days before the arrest. They claimed they knew I was gay and offered me to conduct the coming-out in a “private conversation”. I blocked those people, but if some perverts from the KGB are interested, I am confessing today I am not gay.

In the end, they threatened me with sexual violence in prison.

Regardless of the blackmailing and the fact that I committed no criminal activity and knew no secrets — I decided to testify. After the private conversation, the KGB men ordered I should repeat all this in the presence of the lawyer, and gave me the cooperation agreement to sign. I signed the cooperation agreement with the KGB under the pseudonym “Artur”, thinking I would confess in that to my friends after release. Today, I repent this demeanor before God and people. If someone judges me for what I have done, I think they have a right to this.”