Court to announce verdict on the “case against the 14” tomorrow at 11 a.m.
21.04.2008.
Tags: criminal persecution, Kim.
Today Centralny court of Minsk continued to consider the criminal case against the democratic youth activists charged with offence under Article 342 part 2 of the Criminal Code – “Organizing or active participation in group actions that seriously violate the public order”. The court heard the last pleas of the defendants. The verdict will be announced on April 22nd, at 11 a.m.
The prosecutor demanded to sentence Andrei Kim, activist of the youth group Initsyatyva, also accused under Art. 364 of the Criminal Code (“Violence or a threat of violence towards a policeman”) to 2 years of imprisonment. He also asked to punish Aliaksei Bondar, Artsiom Dubski, and Mikhail Pashkevich with 2 years of restriction of freedom; and others – with 2.5 years of correctional labor without sending them to penitentiary institutions.
Also, on April 22nd Maskouski court of Minsk will begin trial over the leader of Vitebsk entrepreneurs Siarhei Parsiukevich.
See also
14.05.2008 Last four figurants of the ‘case of fourteen’ to be tried 23 May
13.05.2008 Prosecutor’s office interrogates BelSat coordinator
05.05.2008 Vitsebsk: politically motivated warnings to minors
02.05.2008 Andrei Kim transferred to prison hospital because of eye inflammation
30.04.2008 U.S. citizen beaten in Belarusian prison
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