"Political" investigator to work on treason case?
Aleh Barysevich, who investigates Andrei Haidukou's "crimes", worked on the mass riots case, started after the election-2010.
"I am going to call and ask where he is. I'm afraid they won't tell me anything. I will try to meet with the investigator as well. I will send them a corresponding application, to meet with the investigator. They transferred him to Vitsebsk... I don't know whether it is for the better or for the worse", — says Volha Haidukova, who has just learned about her son's transfer from Minsk KGB detention center to Vitsebsk, from the lawyer.
Volha doesn't know where her son is at the moment. There is no KGB detention center in Vitsebsk, and it would be a lightweight deed to keep a suspect of such a serious crime in the ordinary police pre-trial detention center. Haidukou's current status is also unknown - nobody knows where he is still a suspect or he has already been accused. Mysteries all around.
The attitude of Haidukou's allies and human rights defenders to his case is also unclear. Haidukou's ally Yauhen Kanstantsinau, the head of the "Young Intellectuals' Union", says that they do not consider Andrei a political prisoner so far.
"Opinions divided. We are collecting information about Andrei at the moment, so that he could get the political prisoner status. This issue has not been solved yet."
However, one secret has been disclosed. They appointed an investigator to work on this case - no one but Aleh Barysevich. He first "starred" in the media in Summer 2010, when he laid open a group of policemen in Vitsebsk, who held illegal investigatory experiments, bringing innocent people to prisons.
Since Winter 2011, Barysevich started appearing in "political" cases. Nasta Palazhanka, who spent two months in the KGB prison after the election-2010, calls Barysevich "a fairly decent man from the outside".
"He behaved rather decently, at least, from the outside. He never raised his voice at me, I can't say he was unpredictable or inadequate".
Human rights defenders have more questions to Barysevich. "Vyasna" says that they recorded many violations in the investigatory actions, conducted by him. Moreover, the cases that he worked on for the recent years were bad-smell, to put it politely. According to Palazhanka, almost the whole "Young Front" was interrogated by Barysevich.
"This investigator summoned practically every activist of the "Young Front" for interrogations. He interrogated Dzemidzenka, Lojka, Kirkevich also saw him. He also interrogated the people who knew me. He summoned church pastors from Navahradak. He is a rather popular person now."
Euroradio has found out that another person mentioned in Haidukou's case, Illya Bahdanau, was not summoned for interrogations any more after the night trip from Vitsebsk to Minsk. He only had problems at work. However, he was not fired - the youngster signed an employment contract which is in force till 2014.
