I know how much Khalip would like to tell, but can not due to house arrest. Then tell me - about the days spent with her in prison.
We lived in a cell on the second day. Women all over the KGB detention center at that time there were seven: the three ...
... Close and narrow, resembling a coffin, the room was designed for four. We have three of the load to the mattress, blanket and pillow awarded on a brand new, just vystrugannoy ... These ... This was the morning of December 20, and dozens of boards vystrugannyh just stood in the corridor. It turned out that they were making the night before, preparing for mass arrests....
Putting ... In the aisle between the bunks bunk could barely walk. But we were all the same. Tired and exhausted, we somehow dragged their boards and mattresses into the camera and embraced.
This was probably the happiest moment of dreadful night for the first arrest. We were confused to tell each other the latest news. By Ira I learned how to beat up and arrested by Andrei Sannikov, as it is the very first thrown into prison in Akrestsin, and then sent to the KGB, as she could on the way to call Dmitry Bondarenko at the time came for him, too. Insanity going on in my head could not fit. It seemed a little more and it's over. Well, the same can not really like that the arrest of all!.
The very first impression of the prison were Ira about how she spent the night on the floor under the bunks. ( I've slept since then more than a month. If the plank is not bunk, they usually nailed to the wall higher and they can be put under the board). When transferred to another cell, the guard shouted, Ira, ... ... So she learned that ...
Sharing experiences, we have placed in the chamber. It was found that no matter how hard you try more than one ... What has two of them? . As a result, formed by two on the lower bunk and one person on the floor.
The next day three, including Nastya Palazhanka, took out our camera. We decided it was now that all the places. But no, the fifth resulted in a woman 50 years old, who said that she was arrested on Independence Square at the exit of the hotel ... Name the woman was very rare - Ivanov and the appearance of a simple resident of Minsk in the KGB jail has caused confusion. Especially since she kept pestering us with Ira question: what to say to the investigator? .
On the way of life at first, everything was really bad. I, strangely enough, the first time in my life did not stop, and helped myopia. They arrested me in contact lenses. With all the reluctance, KGB agents had to call my mother to tell where I am and to allow transfer to prison Points. But my mother, because of their desperate insistence, was also able to give personal care items and some clothes.
Ira is not allowed to transfer to the prison thing for a week. First, parents could not figure out where it is, and then they just do not take a transfer. Things my mom passed, we have divided in half. With regard to products, we fed our inmates, who, though afraid to talk about politics, but a human being have good support.
We sleep with Ira continued to ... At 6 am, after the command ...
The first morning we sat down to write letters to relatives, wishing to calm them down, made lists of things that need to transfer to prison, and scribbled a declaration addressed to the investigators and the chief of prison with the requirement to allow a meeting with a lawyer. Naive, we still do not know the new order the KGB detention center, which were introduced with the advent of ... On the second day we took the book with the internal regulations, though at first punished to learn it by heart. Then it became clear why - here are the rules change every day.
Letters to ours, as it soon became clear, will not set off. We also did not get a single line. I do not know whether Irina was able to get a letter from the parents, but one single letter from my mother, I read only a month later in the office of the facility director. He took it out of the safe (!). Later in his presence, I wrote a response. Copied three times - have not been censored, even the word ... Later, I learned that the way the first letters written to freedom of all political prisoners.
Ira hauled in for questioning several times a day. I was waiting in front, when one day, some were questioning four, the last of which ended around midnight.
I know that from the first day Irina offered in exchange for the freedom to write a penitent letter to Lukashenko. But the categorical denials of KGB journalist forced to greatly regret that they have to offer is the wife of Sannikov.
By the way, about those infamous letters. I, too, a month later ... When I refused to do so, and threatened that I would sit, while there is a consequence - to 1.5 years. After earlier assurances that the work site editor charter97. org, I 'll sit down for 5-8 years, a period of eighteen months did not seem like much. I have again and again refused to. Behind, and a week later freed on bail. Well, how can you not remember Shalamov with his ...
If I tried to push her mother and children, ...
I can not imagine that Ira had to endure when she was told that Danyu sent to an orphanage. During the time that we spent together, she began to cry once, when she spoke about her son. But he quickly picked herself and hid her tears. And all the while saying, ...
In the early days I read a lot about ... Irina is not going to hide anything from anyone. Jauntily swinging an invisible sword, ax enemies, joked and dazzling erudition, in the course of unraveling the most complex words in crosswords.
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After extending our arrest to 10 days, we went on hunger strike with Ira. The next day, when Ira was summoned for questioning, I heard the command ... we were accommodated. I now have to live in a cell with only ... Finding Khalip and Radina in the same cell administration is considered dangerous. Three days later, each of us is individually made to stop the hunger strike, threatening stricter regime for inmates.
The more we have not seen. We released almost simultaneously. I was exiled from Minsk to Kobrin without leaving the city and banned from writing articles. Ira was taken from prison to house arrest.
More than three months, she does not leave the house and can only communicate with her son and parents, and then under constant surveillance by the KGB. Her husband, Andrei Sannikov, she could see on the television channel ...
May 11 after a painfully long break for the first time il come out. In order to also appear before the court unfair. But I know that she will stand, because there is nothing to fear, in prison, nothing, no one asked. But I always believed that everything will end soon - my husband and son will be again next to her, she will continue to work as a journalist, wrote a lot of great books in general - it would be a very different life in Belarus.
Natalia Radin.
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