Policemen try to force entry into Alyaksandr Frantskevich’s flat

Police officers are trying to break into the flat of the former political prisoner.

Information about that was posted by a human rights activist Anastasiya Lojka on her Facebook account.

“They are trying to break into Alyaksandr Frantskevich’s house, could anyone go there? It’s not far from Uruchcha metro station,” she wrote. “Recently several anarchists were detained, a kind of a strange mopping-up operation has started.”

Anastasiya Lojka noted that a probable reason for the mopping-up is the summit of the head of the CIS states, which is to take place on October 10.

Alyaksandr Frantskevich was recognized a political prisoner after in May 2011 he was convicted in the so-called “case of anarchists”. Five activists were found guilty of malicious hooliganism and deliberate destruction of property (holding an unsanctioned anti-war rally near the Defense Ministry in 2009, and pelting the territory of the Russian Embassy in Minsk and the prison building in Akrestsin Street with Molotov cocktails in 2010).

The court sentenced Frantskevich to 3 years of deprivation of liberty. In early September 2013 he was released.