Anton Surapin: “I still wake up trembling every morning”

Photographer Anton Surapin works and does not have time to have a rest after the release from the KGB jail.

One of the people involved in teddy bear attack case told Salidarnast about the passed weekend and plans for the future.

“The passed weekend was the most unusual I've had in my life, though I worked a lot these days,” Anton Surapin says. “I slept only three hours. At five in the morning on Saturday journalists came. At eight, other journalists began to call. On Sunday, I checked passwords on my accounts on social networking websites. The computer at home is old, it works slowly, but I have to use even this opportunity.”

The photographer says he has a kind of psychological recovery.

“I wake up trembling every morning,” Anton Surapin says. “Actually, I caught myself thinking the day after the release it happened like to someone else, not to me.”

The journalist plans to devote the next week to his project Belarusian News Photos.

“I need to work over my website, do some editing and comment moderation, because there were many trolls here while I was not here. I will try to have a rest and come back to normal life,” the journalist says.

We remind photographer Anton Surapin was detained on July 13, 2012. On July 23, he was charged with violating part 3 of article 371 of the Criminal Code of Belarus (Crossing the state border of Belarus illegally). In this way the KGB interpreted posting a photo of the supposed flight of a Swedish plane over Belarus on Anton Surapin's website. The journalist was released on his own recognizance on August 17.