Activists to be brought to court for white-red-white flag

Uladzislau Barouski and Jauhen Khaziakhmetau were detained in Brest for hanging out a white-red-white flag.

A white-red-white flag was hanged out in Maskouskaja street near the park of Internationalist servicemen on an armored troop carrier placed on a pedestal on 18 March around 11.10. At the same place policemen first detained Uladzislau Barouski and Jauhen Khaziakhmetau and then Andrei Sharenda, BelaPAN reports.

They were all taken to the Maskouski police department in Brest. The activists gave explanations at the police station. Barouski, who did not deny that he had hanged out the white-red-white flag on the armored troop carrier, and also Khaziakhmetau, who claimed he had not participated in the action but only tool pictures, were handed in subpoenas according to which they had to come to the Maskouski police department on 20 March. Sharenda said at the police that he simply walked around in that district of the city.

Around 16.00 all the detained were released from the police station with no protocols of an administrative violation composed.

According to a human rights activist Raman Kislak, on 20 March protocols were composed at the Maskouski police department against Barouski and Khaziakhmetau for violating the part 1 of the article 23.34 of the Administrative Code (participation in holding an unauthorized event).

According to Kislak, the protocol of 17-year old Barouski will be considered by the commission for the underaged of Brest’s Maskouski district, Khaziakhmetau’s case – by the court of Maskouski district.