“Salidarnasts” editor interrogated in metro blast case

• 18.04.2011, 15:59

Earlier the Prosecutor General’s Office issued an official warning to Starikevich for “dissemination of unsubstantiated information about the tragic events in Minsk metro.”

On April 16 the editor-in-chief of “Salidarnasts” (Solidarity) online newspaper, Alyaksandr Starikevich, was interrogated at the prosecutor’s office as a witness in the metro blast case. A lawyer of the journalist was present during the interrogation, “Nasha Niva” writes.

As said by Starikevich, he had been phoned up for questioning, a writ had not been sent to him, but he decided to come. “There was nothing interesting, in fact,” the editor-in-chief says. He believes that the prosecutor’s office could have received an order to question a certain circle of people.

The journalist does not exclude that it could be connected with Lukashenka’s order to question everyone in the framework of the criminal case. “Maybe these so-called politicians from the fifth column will show their cards and tell us who had ordered it, won’t they? Or is that somebody from the authorities? Interrogate everyone. You must summon and interrogate everyone, regardless of democracy, cries and wailing of foreign sufferers. We have materials. Take them and examine, and let them explain where they have this information from,” Lukashenka said last week.

The statement was made after the Prosecutor General’s office issued a warning for “dissemination of information unsubstantiated information about the tragic events in Minsk metro” to the leader of “For Freedom” movement Alyaksandr Milinkevich, the former KGB representative Valery Kostka and the editor of an online newspaper “Salidarnasts” Alyaksandr Starikevich.