Tatstsyana Sevyarynets’ speech meant for Polish Sejm

Tatstsyana Sevyarynets, mother of Pavel Sevyarynets who is imprisoned in KGB detention centre, has asked independent mass media to distribute her speech about the situation in Belarus prepared for the meeting of the Polish Sejm in Warsaw.

Let us remind you that KGB members did not allow Mrs. Sevyarynets to leave for Warsaw. They interrogated her and took away her passport.

Tatstsyana Sevyarynets was going to say the following:

"Ladies and gentlemen! 16 years has passed since Belarus was turned into a police state with a dictatorship regime.

None of us can be sure of anything. They can search our flats at any time or summon us for an interrogation; we can be caught in the street and pushed into a police truck regardless of our health condition, personal plans, children or age.
My son Pavel Kanstantsinavich Sevyarynets was jailed in the KGB detention centre this way – the worst prison in Belarus – it happened on the night of December 20, 2010. He was detained after a peaceful protest action in Independence Square where Belarusian people tried to express their attitude to the recent presidential election. 

I can testify to the international community that all the information about the good prison conditions of the detained citizens including my son distributed by the official mass media does not represent the facts. They do not receive our letters, neither do we receive theirs, lawyers cannot meet them, the list of foodstuffs that can be sent to them is limited for no reason, meetings with relatives are not allowed. 

I was detained an hour before the departure of my train to Warsaw where I had planned to take part in the meeting of the Polish Sejm to make a speech about the real human rights situation in Belarus. I was late for my “Minsk-Warsaw” train, lost money and suffered moral damages because of strangers who introduced themselves as KGB members and investigator Sanko Ivan Ivanavich on January 12, 2011. Furthermore, an unknown KGB member who followed me along the corridors of the state organization stole my passport . Everything was done to disrupt a free speech of a free citizen in a free country!

I would like to urge the international community to do everything possible to change the human rights situation in Belarus and to make it correspond to the international standards of the democratic community!”