Search in apartment of Vitsebsk journalist Syarhei Serabro

• 13.01.2010, 17:08

This information comes from the wife of the editor of the website “Popular news of Vitsebsk”. Syarhei Serabro is unavailable at the moment, his cell phone is turned off.

Syarhei Serabro’s wife said she had received a phone call from the owner of the apartment they rent, who had said about the call from militia. The woman was warned she should obtain leave and open the apartment for militiamen. The owner didn’t say what militiamen were going to do,” Radio Svaboda reports.

Syarhei Serabro colleagues do not exclude the search in the apartment is connected with the case of Syarhei Kavalenka, who hung out a national white-red-white flag on the Vitsebsk Christmas tree before eyes of hundreds of passers-by on January 7.

Syarhei Serabro was taking photo of how the flag was hung out and then removed by emergency ministry officers. He was detained. Militiamen wanted to view the photos, which was technically impossible. Photos by Syarhei Serabro were spread on the Internet in the evening January 7. The website charter97.org was among the sites that published them.