Barysau: human rights defender didn't manage to find about the location of priest Uladzislau Lazar
A month ago the Barysau society was
astonished by the news about the arrest of reverend Uladzislau Lazar,
rector of the local parish of Holy Spirit, and his placement in the
remand prison of the KGB. Human rights defender Maryna Statkevich
unsuccessfully tried to find out where he was kept, in order to pass
him the necessary things.
The KGB and the local priests
refrain from comments on this topic.
"Now there are many
talks about the 29-year-old programmer Edward Snowden who told
reporters about secret programs of the U.S. National Security Agency
in overseeing the foreigners through the Internet and mobile
communications. Here it is clear – he had access to restricted
information. I'm wondering what kind of sensitive information a
priest can have? I wouldn't like to be ironic on the matter, as far
as he is more than likely to be kept in the KGB prison now, and even
the fact of being kept in such places is concerned by human rights
defenders as torture. I don't believe that the authorities will give
a clear answer to it... We are living amidst terrible lies, and that
there is no end in sight ... ", commented Maryna Statkevich, an
active parishioner of the Barysau church of Nativity of the Virgin
Mary.