Anastasija Lojka: Alienievich may not come back alive from prison

A decision to publish the book “Going to Magadan” by a convicted anarchist Ihar Alienievich is an act of heroism.

A human rights activist Anastasija Lojka stated that at the book’s presentation. At the same time she emphasized that after its publication “no one can guarantee, that he will be released alive and in good health”, BelaPAN reports.

The book, issued in the circulation of 900 copies in Russia at the expense of Ihar Alienievich’s friends, tells the story of the anarchist and his friends’ capture, the time spent in a KGB pre-trial jail, episodes of meeting behind the bars with the people, involved in the case of the mass disturbances of 19 December 2010 in Minsk.

According to Lojka, the moments, described in the book, are important as the experience, since people “are afraid of what they do not know”, and what has been told in this book will for many relief the fear of the unknown.

The leader of the Tell the Truth civic campaign Uladzimir Niaklaeu highlighted that Alienievich’s work is “not only a powerful material of facts, but also is good literature”. He noted that the most important in the convicted anarchist’s book is human dignity.

Alienievich’s childhood friend, who introduced himself as Dzmitry, expressed a belief that the prison term will not break the prisoner and he will come out of the prison “not worse than as he got there”. “For him, as for a, so to say, social engineer, it is a colossal experience of studying the system from within”, - the presentation’s participant said.

“Ihar is such a person, who, it seems, will simply open the door and exit the prison, when he gets fed up”, - Alienievich’s buddy Aliaksandr, who shares his anarchist views, characterized his firmness and dedication.