KGB said why opposition questioned in blast case

Zmitser Slutski, head of the Hrodna city organisation of the United Civil Party, and leader of the Hrodna Young Democrats Alyaksandra Vasilevich, were called to the KGB directorate for the Hrodna region.

The both politicians are members of the initiative group for nomination UCP deputy head Yaraslau Ramanchuk a candidate.

Alyaksandra Vasilevich was detained by the KGB when he was gathering signatures in a house on 31 July, www.ucpb.org reports. KGB officer Alyaksandr Baradaukin called her on her cell phone at half past six in the evening and said he had some questions to her. Alyaksandra Vasilevich leaf the house, where a KGB car was already waiting for her, and was guarded to the KGB office. He had her fingerprints taken and wrote an explanation in connection with the terroristic act in Minsk. A pennant “Best KGB officer” hung on the wall in the cabinet of Alyaksandr Barodka, who questioned the UCP activist.

“The best officer” made an appointment for 7 pm to see Zmitser Slutski. But the latter said he refused to visit the KGB office without a summons. “The both UCP activists “were invited” to the KGB office in the evening when they were gathering signatures. It is clear that the blast was connected with the election campaign and its consequences are connected with the election,“ Hrodna region UCP head Yury Istomin thinks.

On the next day, 1 August, three militia officers came to, Artur Maiseevich, head of Navahrudak district UCP organisation, member of Yury Istomin’s initiative group. They asked him about the terroristic act and took his fingerprints. On a question why they needed his fingerprints, Artur was answered: “You are a UCP member.” They asked Artur if he knew people interested in blasting work, when he had been in Minsk for the last time and where he had been when the bomb had exploded.