BELARUS NEWS AND ANALYSIS

DATE:

23/05/2007

KGB of Belarus trying to recruit young activists more actively

The KGB of Belarus staff is again trying to recruit the active youth with firm civic standpoint by threats of being expelled from the institutes, online agency Khartiya'97 reports.

It says that Vital Tsyhanovich, 3rd year student of the art faculty of the Institute for modern knowledge of Belarus, has become another victim of the KGB psychological pressure. In March Vital was detained and convicted to 3 days in prison for distribution of the published matter informing about the Day of Freedom on March 25. Vital refused of cooperating with the secret service, when KGB officers talked to him, but he was warned of the approaching session and they offered him to think it all over and to give a quick answer. Then Vital's cell phone started ringing and people introducing themselves as the KGB officials tried to make an appointment with him. They supposedly got upset by another refusal and founding no other means of pressure they threatened him with expelling from the institute, Khartiya'97 marks.

Online agency cites rights defender Irina Tolstsic who underlines that is not the first case of the psychological pressure on the students for their refusal to cooperate with the KGB. The KGB often resort to different sorts of written confirmation of cooperation with them, of non-divulgence of information for intimidating a person, for making such talks seemingly important, for keeping a person on a hook, according to Tolstsic.

Source:

http://www.axisglobe.com/article.asp?article=1311