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Navapolatsk police fine activist and his friends

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Navapolatsk police fine activist and his friends

Dzmitry Dziakau, an activist of the BCD organising committee, was detained and fined in Navapolatsk on May 19.

The activist received a fine of 20 basic amounts (3,600,000) rubles for “violating of the rules of urban maintenance of Belarus”, in particular for hanging out a banner reading “BCD” on a park fence in Navapolatsk, Radio Svaboda reports.

According to the activist, he hung out the banner, met with his friends and walked around the city before the company was detained by the police. Dzmitry Dziakau didn't deny he had hung out the banner. He was fined by chief of the Navapolatsk city police Dzmitry Raziankou.

A few days later, Dzmitry's friends were informed that they were fined, too.

“The girl who was with us received a telephone call next day. She was told that she was fined 10 basic amounts. She is shocked. She she is crying and asks not to mention her name in the media. The other friend, Yauhen Bialianka, was fined 10 basic amounts 10 days later. They didn't agree with the accusation and said they hadn't done anything illegal, but their fines were smaller than mine, which doesn't seem logical. It was written in the police report that I had hung out the banner. But my friends' reports say that there were three offenders. The proofs look strange. The first one is that the dormitory's CCTV footage showing us leaving the dorm approximately at the same time. The second proof is that we were detained together, and the banner was already on the fence at that time,” Dzmitry Dziakau said.

The policemen told before the detention they were looking for the people who had drawn graffiti on the city administration building and the company looked like the suspects. They said at the police station that the real reason was the banner. Dzmitry Dziakau and his friends discuss the possibility of appealing against the fines.

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