Ihar Losik recounted how he was held in the KGB pre-trial detention center with a former delegate of the All-Belarusian People's Assembly — a police colonel who, while drunk, almost killed his wife
The ex-political prisoner shared another story from his incarceration on his Facebook page.
Illustrative photo of the All-Belarusian People's Assembly from February 2021
"Tomorrow, another session of the All-Belarusian People's Assembly begins in Belarus, and I remembered how I ended up in a KGB pre-trial detention cell with a delegate of this assembly. He was a police colonel from a small Belarusian town in the Homiel region.
He ended up in prison for an unusual case — he was accused of almost shooting his own wife with his service pistol while in a state of alcoholic intoxication. Luckily: literally a few millimeters to the left — and she wouldn't have survived.
But that's not the point. In the cell, we often had disputes about the war in Ukraine, the situation in Belarus, and this All-Belarusian People's Assembly. He participated in it in 2024 but couldn't answer a single question — from 'why was this body created at all?' to 'what did you adopt and what did you vote for there?'.
He was very poorly oriented in Belarusian events and even lost a chocolate bar to me when he argued that it was absolutely impossible for Belarus to reinstate the two-presidential-term limit.
"The All-Belarusian People's Assembly is when 1,200 people gather to officially confirm the opinion of one person," — concluded Ihar Losik.
Top translator went to Belarus to renew his passport — and was arrested for donations. "The KGB looked at the sum and decided that no one in their right mind could spend so much of their own money" 1414
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