Man in space

What happened to Viktor Babariko in the Novopolotsk colony before he was in the hospital

“Victor Babariko is hospitalized,” this news was still relevant on the morning of April 28. By the evening of Friday, Babarico disappeared. The telegram channel, which is conducting his former headquarters, said that in the evening of April 27, the politician was still in the surgical department of the Novopolotsk hospital, in a state of moderate severity. And by the evening of the next day, neither the hospital nor the colony confirmed its presence. What exactly happened to the most popular presidential candidate in Belarus, the former head of Belgazprombank, no one also knows.

Rumors that Viktor Babariko is beaten and is located in the hospital of Novopolotsk (he is serving a sentence in IK-1, located in this city), appeared on the evening of April 26. This was the first to say this was the telegram channel “Rukh”: “From several sources, we received information that on the night of April 24 to 25 from IK-1, Novopolotsk, he was delivered to the Novopolotsky Central City Hospital with multiple bodily injuries Viktor Babariko.”

The next day, at eight in the morning, representatives of the Babariko headquarters wrote that they managed to confirm information about hospitalization, and he is in the surgery department, doctors take the liquid from the lungs. This is all that I managed to find out. Whether no one still knows the cause of hydrotorax or disease. Because Viktor Babariko in the colony applied a classic technique that actively uses the Belarusian regime in relation to political prisoners - complete isolation inside the zone and cutting off any contacts with the outside world.

Of the close relatives of Babariko, only a sister is in the wild. His wife tragically died a few years ago during the vacation, and his son Edward was detained with his father on June 18, 2020, when they brought signatures collected for the nomination of Viktor Babariko to the Presidential Center. Eduard still - almost three years - is in the KGB pre -trial detention center. And the banker himself in July 2021 was sentenced to 14 years in prison. He was not judged by the conspiracy, and not for treason, and not even for mass riots: for bankers, it is always ready for articles about tax failure and bribes. Soon, Victor was transferred to IK-1 in Novopolotsk.

There he worked in a bakery, then burned charcoal.

Lawyers went to Babariko, he could call his sister. But this lasted only a few months.

At the end of October 2021, his lawyers were deprived of licenses, and in March last year, Babariko was registered as "a person prone to capture hostages, an attack on the administration and hooligan manifestations." Now he wears a yellow tag on a prison robe. By the way, all political prisoners are registered-probably, so that the colonies of the colonies on the yellow tag immediately, even from afar, see: here is a political, and not some socially close.

Then Viktor Babariko was placed several times in a schizo, and recently, according to unconfirmed information, he was in the PCT ( chamber type premises. - Approx. Ed. ). But no one knows details, because in the last few months there were no calls to his sister or letters. The last lawyer who replaced the license was detained was detained on March 20. So no news from Babariko has been breaking through for several months. What is happening inside the colony is also unknown. Because-and this is the know-how of the Belarusian regime for several years-with famous political prisoners it is forbidden to communicate with others.

At the end of December, Blogger Alexander Kabanov, who had served his three -year term, was released. He left Belarus and spoke about the administration’s pressure on Babariko: “As with Babarico, then the problem is immediately. Automat you have a blacklist. They begin to shoot you. You start to ride a schizo. If the criminals tried to speak with him, then they can immediately slap them. It is isolated as much as possible. " Prisoners are simply forbidden to communicate with him. Even if you just say hello - you can find yourself in a schizo, lose a date or program (there are enough informers there, and the administration will find out about each word and gesture). This method has been used for a long time.

“You can even sleep in neighboring bunks with the one with whom it is forbidden to communicate,” the prisoner recently released from the same colony explained to me, “you can stand next to him at verification, but you cannot say a word to him. And even if he addresses you with the question - you are silent. Otherwise, goodbye the call, transmission, date. The vacuum around a person is easily created. If, in addition, external contacts like calls of relatives and letters are excluded, then, consider, a person in space. And no one dares to violate this ban on the administration. ”

A person in space is an accurate definition of the situation in which Viktor Babariko found himself. In this space, you can do anything: he will not be able to tell anyone about it because he is deprived of any human contacts. Liquid in the lungs is not a disease, it is a syndrome. And no one still knows what it is called. How does not know where exactly Viktor Babariko is now and in what condition.

The indirect, but surely that he was clearly brought not with a runny nose, is the very fact of this -course of the “civilian” hospital. In the colonies, they really do not like this and avoid: this is transport, this is a convoy, it is round -the -clock security in the hospital. In general, if there is at least the slightest opportunity to give the prisoner aspirin and leave in the colony, they use it. And if they were taken to the city hospital, it means that the situation is really threatening.

When Maria Kolesnikov was brought to the Gomel hospital in the Gomel hospital from the women's colony, this became known only the day after she was operated on: the information was confirmed by the lawyer. Moreover, on the same day, November 29, he went to the colony, where no one told him that Mary was in the hospital: they simply refused to meet with the client, motivating that she allegedly did not apply. So the information about both Kolesnikova and about Babarico seeped into the will of small drops: one of the staff whispered to the acquaintance, he-to his acquaintance, and only the third or sixth acquaintance of a friend was able to publish her.

By the way, it is also forbidden to communicate with Maria Kolesnikova in the colony. After liberation, the journalist Belsata Daria Chultsova said that she had never communicated with Kolesnikova, because “relations with her are prohibited in principle. Nobody approaches her, and she herself does not fit. Everyone understands that they will be punished for disciplinary sanctions. ”

Could Viktor Babariko beat? Yes, they could. Novopolotsky colony is famous for the fact that the beating of prisoners by the boss was practiced there.

Former political prisoner Vadim Khizhnyakov, after his release, told human rights activists that prisoners were beaten and hid in a schizo to hide the traces: “Injuries (as a result of violence) are hidden, and people are isolated with them. In most cases, such injuries are applied to the schizo so that there are no witnesses. In such cases, a person can hold 30 or more days, even 120, so that everything heals. Then, of course, some medications and help give, so as not to die. Although the saying goes there: it is easier to write off the prisoner than the guard dog. Then they usually transfer them to PCT so that nothing is told, since units go to the zone from PCT, they are mainly released or in prison. ”

The head of the colony Andrei Palchik loved to beat people. “Twenty -year -old David Lipperterny was personally beaten with a finger with a club to bleed from the rectum,” Hizhnyakov told human rights activists. - After that, Lipperterny opened his stomach. I had to hospitalize, but introduced everything as if power was applied to it in response to an attack. The case was aroused against him. But the case was closed, having received a promise from him to be silent. Now transferred to prison mode. Finger - sadist and tyrant. Several employees are admitted to executions, and everyone knows about it. Among the rest there are also scum, but without a team they do not risk crossing the line on their own. ” At the end of March, information appeared that Andrei Finger was removed from his post. But his work, apparently, lives.