Ukrainian fans: Freedom for Kiryl Silivonchyk
4- 30.04.2015, 9:18
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Fans of Ukrainian football club Dnipro supported the Belarusian who was arrested in Russia.
Fans unfurled a huge banner reading “Freedom for Kiryl Silivonchyk! Long live Belarus!” at a match with Shakhtar on April 29.
The Moscow region military court found 22-year-old Kiryl Silivinchyk, a Homel native, guilty of violating the article “Public justification of terrorism or public calls for terrorist activity”. The Belarusian posted a call of solidarity with Ukraine and joint struggle against Russia's terrorist threat on his page on VKontakte social networking site. He was sentenced to two years in an open-type correctional facility. Kiryl Silivonchyk serves his term in Russia.