Political abductions go on in Belarus

• 3.08.2012, 15:47

Human rights activist Alena Krasouskaya-Kasoyarovich was taken out of town.

Platform website reports unknown people in civvies came to the organization deputy director from a detention centre on Akrestin Street and took her in an unknown direction in a car without registration plates.

Officers of the detention centre and Partyzanski district police department told Alena's lawyer and Platform activists she had been taken to the Partyzanski district court.

As found out some hours later, people in mufti stopped the car far from the city and ordered the human rights activist to get out. They handed her a package with her belonging and the car left.

Alena caught a bus, got home and phoned her colleagues. The deputy head of Plantform links her detention with the increased pressure on the organization.

“It is wrong that the bodies, who detained me, have the right and opportunities to violate all laws. I don't know what reaction they expected from me, but I can say for sure they didn't scare me with 3-day stay in the detention centre,” Krasouskaya-Kaspyarovich said and promised to continue her human rights activity.

Alena Krasouskaya-Kaspyarovich disappeared on July 31. Her mobile phone was unavailable. Platform activists found her on August 1 in the detention centre. The woman was detained by police near her house, taken to a police department, where a report for alleged swearing was drawn up against her.

We remind that in December 2009, several leaders of the Belarusian opposition – Zmitser dashkevich, Yauheny Afnahel, Uladzimir Lemesh, Artur Finkevich, Anastasia Palazhanka – were abducted and taken out of town.