Provocations in court organized by BRSM secretary Uladzimir Tsyukhai

Radio Svaboda found out the name of a person who took students of Belarusian Agricultural Technical University to the trial over the political prisoner and insulted Alyaksandr Barazenka’s mother.

It was found out he is Uladzimir Tsyukhai, secretary of the Minsk committee of the pro-governmental Communists Party of Belarus and main specialist of BRSM pro-president youth organization of the Tsentralyn district of Minsk.

This man took about 30 students to the Tsentralny district court, so, human rights defenders and opposition activists couldn’t enter the courtroom.

Tsyukhai obviously fulfilled an order of the authorities. It was he who insulted and hit mother of accused Alyaksandr Barazenka. When leaving the courtroom, Alena Barazenka asked the leader of the student group if he had conscience. He pushed the woman at her shoulders in response. The elderly woman fell on her husband’s arms. As people were indignant, the leader of the student group went to militiamen to complain, but they refused to interfere. Then the man began to threaten journalists and called mother of the political prisoner “beast”.

He snatched a photo camera from hand of Aleh Hrusdzilovich, Radio Svaboda’s correspondent, and tried to hinder work of media. “We need to take away his camera and delete the footage. If it appears on the Internet, it will cause a great scandal!” the teacher explained to a militiaman.