Lawyer: ex-chief editor of NEXTA Protasevich, arrested in Minsk, suffered a severe form of tonsillitis

The lawyer of the former editor-in-chief of the telegram channel NEXTA Roman Protasevich managed to get to her client in the KGB pre-trial detention center in Minsk 11 days later. about this in an interview with Radio NV Protasevich's father, Dmitry, spoke .

The lawyer told Protasevich's family that the former editor-in-chief of NEXTA had recently suffered a "severe form of tonsillitis" (an inflammatory process in the palatine tonsils, characterized by redness and pain - ed.). At the same time, Dmitry Protasevich noted that it is not completely known what treatment his son received.

Investigative actions with Roman Protasevich lasted seven hours. The lawyer was able to contact the journalist's family only at about one in the morning Minsk time.

“For seven hours without a break, the investigator refused to let me go even to the toilet, while either the interrogation lasted, or not the interrogation. We still cannot clarify many details with the lawyer,” said Protasevich’s father.

In addition, he said that the management of the pre-trial detention center refuses to hand over books to the former editor of NEXTA. “And there is no money in the account, although they went there. He has had no parcels, no parcels, no letters since May 25, ”Dmitry said.

He also commented on Protasevich's interview with the state television channel ONT, saying that "they want to hear what Lukashenka wants to hear from his son."

Protasevich was detained on May 23, when a Ryanair plane flying from Athens to Vilnius made an emergency landing at Minsk airport at Minsk airport at the request of Belarusian dispatchers and accompanied by a MiG-29 fighter. It turned out that Protasevich was on board the plane. It also became known about the detention of his girlfriend Sofya Sapega, a citizen of the Russian Federation. Subsequently, she was arrested for two months, she is now in the KGB pre-trial detention center.

On June 3, the Belarusian state channel ONT released an interview with Protasevich, in which the former editor-in-chief of NEXTA calls himself guilty of organizing rallies. Protasevich also described his trip to the self-proclaimed republics of Donbass as "the biggest mistake" of his life. He said that he was afraid of being extradited to the LPR, and he called Alexander Lukashenko "a man with balls of steel." At the same time, Protasevich was brought to the studio for an interview, although he was under arrest, and at the end of the recording, signs of torture were visible on his wrists.