Halip: I will have to get stamps in my “waybill”
Journalist Iryna Halip has the strictest regime of personal restraint in comparison with the other “Square convicts” who have not been imprisoned.
Euroradio has talked to Iryna Halip, Andrei Sannikau’s (political prisoner) wife and discussed the restrictions imposed on her by the Belarusian administration of justice.
Halip: I have to appear in the police office once a week and I have to be home by 10 p.m. Moreover, I cannot leave the city and they can visit and control me after 10 p.m.
Euroradio: So it means that you cannot even go to the country, can you?
Halip: "Of course I can’t. I cannot go to our country house for a few days so that my son could get some fresh air. It turns out that I am released on recognizance and I am under house arrest. They may visit me at night – it is very strict”.
Euroradio: Is it the same with the other Dec.19 convicts who are not imprisoned?
Halip: "As far as I know, Syarhei Martsaleu who was accused of the same case (we even live in the same district which means that we are registered in the same inspectorate) does not have to appear in the police office at all. The same can be said about Fyaduta and Dzmitryyeu. I do not have information about the rest”.
Euroradio: Can you change the sentence now?
Halip: "I can’t, the decision is final. I wondered what I would do if I were given a long meeting with my husband. It will happen sooner or later – and that will be a three-day meeting”.
Euroradio: What did they reply?
Halip: "They answered that I would have to write an application and they would give me a special permit. I will be given a waybill like a truck driver and I will have to get stamps in it along my itinerary and I will need to get a stamp in Navapolatsk District too…”
Euroradio: There is information that you have already been finger-printed five times. What is it connected with, can your finger-prints “change”?..
Halip: "You know, members of Sannikau’s team can change capillary lines easily so we have to be controlled all the time. The thing is I had been delivered to different detention centres before they brought me to KGB prison on the evening of December 20 and I was being finger-printed everywhere for the whole day. Everywhere – in Akrsetsina detention centre, in another building in Akrestsina Street, in the isolation centre, in Stsyapyanka or in Uruchie and in KGB prison. They finger-printed me wherever they delivered me”.
Euroradio: Did you ask them why?
Halip: "I did. They replied that our country only had money to disperse manifestations and that it lacked money to create a single date base every institution of the kind could access”.
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