Minsk Dweller Had No Information About Wife and Children For Three Days :: Charter'97 :: News

In the special detention center in Akrestsin Street one could see the only almost happy man: after three days a Minsk dweller found his family! Since March 25 he was looking for his wife and two sons.

The elder son, Dzmitry Paulenka, was arrested on March 24 during the disbanding of a tent camp on October Square in Minsk. The parents were calling to all police departments, hospitals, and detention centers of Minsk. They haven’t given information about Dzmitry’s whereabouts. On the next day mother, Tatsyana Paulenka and her younger son, Alyaxandr, took some food, warms clothes, and went to the pre-trial detention center in Akrestsin Street. They heard that that all political prisoners are taken to that detention center.

Last time Paulenka heard the voice of his wife on March 25 in the afternoon. She only told that she is arrested right near the prison walls together with younger son…

For three days policemen refused to answer, where Tatsyana, Dzmitry and Alyaxandr Paulenki were kept. The man stricken with grief was ignored by policemen, judges, guards of detention centers. They refused to obey the law and provide information, or simply held the man who cannot find all his family.

As it turned out only today, the three members of the Paulenka family are in prison. Tatsyana is sentenced to 15 days of arrest, Dzmitry – to 15 days of arrest, and Alyaksandr – to 10 days of arrest.