Still no publicity in investigation into Andrei Haidukou's case
A month ago the
relatives of the arrested activist learned that the term of the
investigation was extended to March. A month passed, but nothing
cleared: Haidukou's parents still know nothing about what awaits
their son – whether he will be tried soon or the investigation will
continue further.
The only thing which lifts the mood of the
mother of the accused of "high treason" Andrei Haidukou is
that the counsel was finally granted access to him. It happened soon
after the statement of human rights defenders concerning the
violation of his rights at the remand prison of the KGB.
"Two
weeks ago the lawyer spent almost half a day with Andrei! It was
quite surprising, as earlier he was rarely allowed to see him, and
the meetings lasted only for some 20 minutes. The lawyer used to
spend day by day sitting and waiting whether he would be allowed to
meet him. This time he was allowed to meet with him, and they had a
long talk. However, the counsel cannot tell me anything, because he
gave the undertaking not to disclose the materials of the
investigation," said Volha Haidukova.
She still cannot
find anything else about the son. Four months have passed since the
day of his detention, and the terms of the investigation have been
prolonged several times already.
"In February they said
the investigation will be prolonged till March. It is March already,
but nothing is known. What are they doing with him? What is he
charged with? He would have been convicted long ago if they had
something concrete against him, but they keep procrastinating the
time. Now he doesn't even try to explain anything to us, as he
understands that such letters won't be sent to us. Still, we receive
letters with crossed out lines. It means that he tried to write
something, but it wasn't let through by the censors," continues
the mother.
Andrei Haidukou is the only accused in the
"espionage" case. However, there is also a suspect, Illia
Bahdanau, another resident of Navapolatsk. He is still at large, no
restraint has been taken towards him.
Still one more
Navapolatsk resident, Yauhen Kanstantsinau, the head of the
unregistered group "Union of Young Intellectuals", is a
witness in the case (Andrei Haidukou was his deputy).
Friends
and relatives of Andrei Haidukou think that his arrest can be
explained only by his civil activities and oppositional views and
consider as absurd the official information that the 23-year-old
operator of Navapolatsk plant "Naftan" was detained for
"intelligence activities" in favor of foreign security
services, while making a hide with secret information.