Andrej Sannikau: They tortured me in KGB prison
The ex-presidential candidate states in court that he was tortured, and the KGB head Zaitsau threatened his wife's and son's life and health.
“I was delivered to the detention centerm brutally beaten. They kept me in a cold room for 5 hours and did not let me go to the toilet. Then they transferred me to a cell with no places, I lied under a plank bed, my leg injured. It is very cold in the cell. It was very hard to be there. I filed a complaint about tortures.
They ordered me to lie my face to daylight. When I turned around, they ordered me to return to the same pose.
Well-trained people in masks rendered psychological pressure, shouted and banged beat me in the legs.
A "stretch-out". They could keep me in a cold room for a long time, they made me do sit-ups although I had told them my leg was injured. This did not work on them. Then they allowed me to get dressed, in the presence of 3 people, every day. People in masks were shouting with inhuman voices, banging against the walls during all this. I was deprived from the right for correspondence.
I was in a condition close to an animal's, feeling bad, my leg injured.
They recommended that I should write to Lukashenka, like they did to other candidates. KGB agents told me that if I wanted to help my wife I was supposed to give evidence.
There was a forcible conversation between myself
and the KGB head Zaitsau, who threatened life and health of my child and my
wife, on December 31. When I refused to confirm the lies that they suggested, Zaitsau told me
they would take more brutal measures against my wife and my child.
Detective officer Fiatsisau worked with me. He prepared me for interrogations. He told me what to say. He was interested in finance, in my contacts with foreigners.
That is why my evidence given during preliminary investigation is not the same that I am giving now”, – “Nasha Niva” reports Sannikau's words.
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