KGB puts pressure on member on Volha Kazulina’s initiative group

• 27.08.2008, 12:45

Yana Palyakova, a member of the initiative group for collection of signatures in support of Volha Kazulina’s nomination as a candidate for deputy, has addressed the press-service of the former political prisoner Alyaksandr Kazulin.

The activist has told that over the last two days pressure was put upon her by KGB officers of Minsk region in Salihorsk where she lives. KGB officers wanted to know about collection of signatures by Yana Palyakova in Minsk. First phone calls were received by her yesterday from the phone of a Minks region KGB officer on duty. Today KGB men called Yana to the mobile phone, inviting her to “meet” and to talk about her work in the initiative group of Volha Kazulina.

The press-service of A.Kazulin has informed the Belarusian Helsinki Committee and international observers of the OSCE in Salihorsk about the facts of pressure on the member of the initiative group.

As we have informed, at the moment check of signatures submitted by citizens in support of candidates for deputies is carried out in precinct election commissions. The actions of the KGB officers who are interfering the electoral process are illegal.