Waclaw Radziwonowicz: «It’s a Savagery» :: Charter'97 :: News

“I do not know what to think. It’s hard to understand what my fault is and what problems they could have with me? I just write articles, and I hope they are rather good and honest. In fact it’s a savagery. I wasn’t going to Belarus, I was on my way to Moscow in a Russian carriage. I had a ticket to Moscow. Why have they holding me for the whole night in brutal conditions, threatened me? When I was denied entry to the country last year, it was explainable, presidential elections were forthcoming. And now Lukashenka states his desire to bring relations with Europe back to normal. It’s nonsense to treat foreign journalists this way,” a reporter of “Gazeta Wyborcza” Waclaw Radziwonowicz told in an interview to the Charter’97 press-center.

As we have informed, Belarusian border guards haven’t allowed a reporter of “Gazeta Wyborcza” Waclaw Radziwonowicz to travel from Warsaw to Moscow, BelaPAN news agency was told by a correspondent of the newspaper in Hrodna Andrei Poczobutt.

As said by him, the incident took place on July 16 in the night in Brest. “Radziwonowicz is a reporter of “Gazeta Wyborcza” in Moscow, where he was destined for. In Brest at about 1 a.m. Belarusian border guards carried out document inspection and then asked him to leave the train. Until 6 a.m. he was kept under convoy at the border. After that he was placed to the train back to Poland,” Poczobutt said.