Rough School for ZUBRs :: Charter'97 :: News

A pupil of the 8th grade of the Soligorsk secondary school #5 Alexander Gulkevich addressed the Soligorsk branch of the Belarusian Helsinki Committee on October 27. In his letter the boy complained that his school’s headmaster Valentina Yastreb summoned him to her office. Upon his arrival there, her and another teacher forced the lad to confess that it was him, who spray-painted “ZUBR” graffiti on the wall of the adjacent building. When Alexander denied his guilt, the headmaster, who’s, by the way, an honored teacher of the Republic of Belarus, punched the boy in the face with her fist and threatened him that, given he doesn’t admit his guilt before the coming of police, things would get even worse for him.

Head of the Soligorsk branch of the BHC Larisa Nasanovich explains that none of the pupils saw Alexander inscribing anything on the wall. However, they keep him accountable on the grounds of his wearing a ZUBR pin.

The school’s social teacher forced two of his classmates: Alexander and Sergei Podsekins to witness against Gulkevich and confess of their guilt too.

Staffers of the Soligorsk branch of the BHC petitioned the procuracy with a complaint. However, recently they received a refusal to open criminal proceedings on the basis of absence of corpus delicti. The procuracy likewise didn’t initiate legal action against Alexander Gulkevich over slandering the headmaster, due to the fact that he hadn’t yet reached sixteen years of age.