?European Arrests’ in Hrodna
10.10.2007.
Tags: political persecution, detentions, United Civil Party, arrest, European March.
On 10 October in Hrodna the trials of the democratic activists who had been detained on 9 October finished.
The chair of Hrodna oblast organization of the Belarusian Social Democratic Party Viktar Sazonau was found guilty of petty hooliganism (article 17.1 of the Administrative Code) and punished with five days of jail, the same happened to an activist of the United Civil Party Dzmitry Slutski. Another UCP member, Yury Istomin, was sentenced to seven days of jail on the same charges.
A trade union activist Ivan Roman was taken back to the temporary isolator of Leninski district police department of Hrodna because of the failure of the police witnesses to come to the trial.
See also
04.12.2008 Navapolatsk:: opposition activists unlawfully kept at sobering station all night
03.12.2008 Signatures against construction of nuclear power plant are collected in Astravets district
03.12.2008 Polatsk: police detain participants of action in support of political prisoner Barazenka
03.12.2008 Democratic activist Ihar Salavei is… wanted
02.12.2008 Astravets: police detain civil activists on the way to nuclear power station building site
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