KGB officers detained 40-year-old Svyatlana Zyl, a resident of Zhlobin who earlier worked for Belarusian Iron and Steel Plant (BMZ), and took her to Minsk, Homielskaya Viasna reports.
The search of Svyatlana Zyl’s apartment lasted an hour and a half. Then she was questioned in the local KGB department in Zhlobin as a witness. After another interrogation, which lasted four hours, the woman was transported to the capital city.
They said that her release would ‘depend on her behaviour’, Snyazhana Pahodzina, the detainee’s sister, stressed. At the moment, her status is unknown. A defence lawyer has not been allowed to see Svyatlana.
In May, storekeeper Svyatlana Zyl left her job after the plant’s authorities had not extended the contract of her superior Kanstantsin Ramanenka for political reasons. As a sign of protest and solidarity, Svyatlana filed a letter of dismissal and took away her work record book on the same day.
In total, about 40 people have been fired from BMZ since August 2020: some of them joined the nationwide strike, some have not had their contracts prolonged, others got a sack after being detained. Alyaksandr Homan, Yauhen Babrou and Ihar Pavarou were sentenced to imprisonment for attempting to start a strike at the enterprise on August 17, 2020.
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