Andrej Hajdukou’s trial will resume on 17 June

Volha Hajdukova reported that the trial of her son would resume on Monday, 17 June.

That is what Andrej Hajdukou’s attorneys told her. They said that the young man behaved calm, but was still not fully healthy: he could not speak because of a cough, Radio Svaboda reports.

Witnesses will be questioned in court next Monday. Volha Hajdukova has not been summoned to the court as a witness. She wanted to go to the Viciebsk regional court had she received a subpoena. But now she says that she will go to Viciebck even if the judges will not want to hear her testimonies.

It was announced that the verdict for Andrej Hajdukou will be announced openly and at the end everyone will be allowed to the courtroom. The defendant’s mother commented on that as follows:

“This will be of no significance. If people are not allowed to hear everything from the beginning and then they only get the verdict, then no one will know what Andrej is being accused of, why he is considered a spy. How can we believe what we will hear? How can we considere a verdict reasonable, if nothing essential is known? Why was there a need to make such a mystery out of this trial?”

Volha Hajdukova also said that she finally received a letter from son. It dated back to 8 June. Andrej Hajdukou was at the time preparing for the court’s proceedings, so the letter was short. And now he has completely different tasks – to prove his innocence, the mother says.

We would remind that the trial of the political prisoner Andrej Hajdukou has started yesterday. The KGB chairman Valer Vakulchyk reported earlier that the court’s proceedings will be secretive. Andrej Hajdukou’s trial is taking place at the Viciebsk regional court. The activist of opposition was convoyed to the region’s capital on 3 June. His relatives were refused to meet him.

According to official information, Andrej Hajdukou was detained “when he was putting information of interest for foreign special services in a hiding place”. Human rights defenders and opposition activists consider this accusation absurd.

The European Belarus civic campaign came forward with a statement, which said that the activist was detained for disseminating the Charter’97 newspaper. The persecution of Andrej Hajdukou is linked to his oppositional views and is explained as an attempt to intimidate youth activists.