Yuri Khaschevatsky: ON TORTURE AND Executioner

Documentary filmmaker Yuri Khaschevatsky - about the situation surrounding the prisoner's presidential candidate Andrei Sannikov.
... Radio Liberty. ...
Good evening, Yuri. Is it okay to post Irina Khalip that Andrei Sannikov appealed to Lukashenko for pardon after two months of torture?.
First of all, for me it's message is not such a big surprise, since for several months, we feel, to know that Andrew is going on there is something terrible, and we are constantly talking about it. And now it was clear that he was tortured there beyond all measure, because otherwise he would not do it. I understand that this torture is largely based on the fact that the threat of going to his family, his son and his wife Irina. That is, the man was in a terrible situation, and we, just as a society need to realize their enormous guilt in this. We could not protect either Andrew or Dashkevich or Autukhovich so many years, no Statkevich. We currently have no idea what they do to these people, these animals. Although we are well seen, what they can do in the summer, when there were surges in the streets. And this is just for applause. And there is more than a year Sannikov. And this continuous transfer. Five prisons have changed. And there is at level crossings, we all know it is. It's very sad, that's how I am to this. Although, frankly, there is little cause for joy, did see him, yet he was seen alive. And it is very important.

- Former political prisoner Nikita Lihavid in an interview to our radio said that by writing a petition for a pardon in the name of Lukashenko, Sannikov put paid to his future career politician. Do you agree with that?.

- Of course, I do not agree with Nikita. I have great respect for Nikita, he's a great guy, manly fellow, and I am proud to sign this guy. But how young he is, of course, more radical than people older. And the torture, which was subjected to Nikita, and he was subjected to very severe torture, they are still no match is not going to torture against Sannikov. If Nikita will have children, God forbid, my wife, family, and he will understand that the above family, above the children there is nothing in the world. And I think that Belarusian society will understand.

- You are a man and artist, who in his work often returned to the theme of the current regime in Belarus and its leader. As you can imagine this situation - Sannikov, tortured, forced to write a petition, but now they produce?.

- The fact that it is necessary to understand how it all happened. We can imagine that. It was ordered to jail, prison authorities, what is called ... And that changed the prison Sannikov, suggests that simply was not a kata, despite the fact that they are all males out there who would be unable at first to achieve this it. Obviously, it is looking for one that can achieve this. We know how this happens, we all read books, what can these people ever since the 1930s. So here's the thing. The fact that our usurper, I had the President can not name, I have long felt that this man - a sadist.