List of detainees of Litvins’ club
Late in the evening of 8
February 2012 all 32 people detained in the Protestant Church
“Ian the Baptist” were released from the Maskouski District Police Department
of Minsk. Among them there were three under-aged – Vitaut Siuchyk and his
schoolmates Kasia and Maryna.
Human rights defenders managed to establish the surnames of a part of the
detainees:
1. Yury Bachyshcha
2. Maryna Barahukh
3. Antoni Bokun, the church priest
4. Katsiaryna Dalidovich
5. Zmitser Fedaruk
6. Aleh Hayeuski
7. Alena Vasileuskaya
8. Maryia Murashova
9. Dzmitry Piatrouski
10. Dar’ya Shein
11. Adam Shpakouski
12. Pavel Sitnik
13. Aliaksei Skrebeneu
14. Andrei Unuchak
15. Katsiaryna Unuchak
16. Sviatlana Vanchuk
17. Yury Yatsevich
18. Dzmitry Zhandarau
Bear in mind that after the detention the detainees were taken to the police
department in a police bus with the light switched off. Sviatlana noted that
riot policemen’s actions were harsh: “There was an elderly person among us, he
was taken bad in the house. They called in an ambulance only at the police
department, in 40 minutes!”
At first the police stated that they had anonymous information about keeping of
drugs in the building. However, later they stated that they had the suspicion
that there was gathering of a religious sect there. Though the door of the
house was open, the police (who wore masks) smashed all windows and acted with
groundless and excessive violence.
Personal details of the detainees were written down in the police department
several times. Names, birth dates and place of work were asked. At about 10
p.m. participants of “Litvins’ Club” were started to be released in small
groups.
"Litvins’ Club" is a discussion club. Its members got together today
to discuss Frantsishak Aliakhnovich's book "In the Claws of the
GPU*". Let us remind you, in this book Aliakhnovich told about his
imprisonment in Stalin camps and prisons.
* GPU, or the State Political Directorate, was
the secret police of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist
Republic (RSFSR) and the Soviet Union from
1922 until 1934. Formed from the Cheka, the original Russian state
security organization, on February 6, 1922, it was initially known under the
Russian abbreviation GPU--short for "Gosudarstvennoye
politicheskoye upravlenie of the NKVD of the RSFSR" (Государственное политическое управление НКВД РСФСР). Its first chief was the Cheka's former chairman, Feliks
Dzerzhinski.