A Letter From IGOR – Reckless endangerment and other police blunder.

Samuel Reshevsky, age 8, defeating several chess masters at once in France, 1920At first thank you all for your support. I have to say that thanks to you, it’s not so bad here!

Like many other people I was brought in for questioning by well known police officer Kavka. On June 18th, I went out to get some lunch. Besides campus I was stopped by Mr. Kavka where he informed me about questioning and asked me not to run. Through psychological coercion and lies he managed to get into my dorm room where he confiscated my personal computer, camera, tablet and than I was escorted to Letná police station where I was interrogated, threatened, lied to, intimidated for following six hours. After this my fingerprints and traces of odour were taken and I was finally released about half past eight in the evening.

I would be much better off now if I knew my legal rights better, and if I would not succumb to psychological pressure of investigators. I was brutally arrested by police at an anti-fascist blockade in Brno on June 26th and I spent the evening in three different cells and than during the night the Police escorted me to Prague. Continue reading