Police Also Wants Truth? :: Charter'97 :: News

On August 13 in Minsk and Belynichi police confiscated from members of the United Civil Party over 24 thousand copies of “Narodnaya Volya” special issue, dedicated to the seven-year rule of Lukashenko and his political tyranny. The newspapers were carried around in car trunks.

At first, traffic police stopped on the Minsk ring road a vehicle, driven by the chair of the Mogilev UCP Valery Sivukha with 18.400 copies of newspapers. Initially they let the man go, but then all of a sudden stopped him again, referring to the received order. Sivukha was taken to the Zavodsky police station, where police operative lieutenant Vitaly Grigorash drew a confiscation protocol, though omitting the grounds for this arbitrary act.

Same night at around 11p.m. the second vehicle, by means of which the chair of Mogilev Sapega foundation Vladimir Shantsev was carrying another 6000 papers, was stopped in Belynichi. Although it was late hour, local police leadership personally arrived at the place of occurrence. As a result the newspapers were taken away for examination, so were the protocols on the assignment of observers to the polling stations and other printed production.

One could get an impression that the Mogilev oppositionists were traced all the way from Minsk with the purpose to prevent them from spreading truthful information in Alexander Lukashenko’s birthplace. Anyway, let the police study the materials – may be, at least, they will get a clue of it.