Riot policemen continue to search people near the court

In the sight of the Charter’97 journalist riot policemen were searching young people who were coming past the court of Tsentralny district of Minsk, where a trial over participants of a protest rally of market vendors was held today.

It is worth mentioning that riot policemen forced to open bags and backpacks the people who were just passing by. Moreover, they were on the opposite side of Kirov Street where the court is situated!

As we have informed, today riot policemen pushed away people from the building of the court of Tsentralny district the people who were holding portraits of defendants in the “Process of the Fourteen”. People were driven away and made to march “under police escort” for more than a kilometer, to the “Pershamajskaya” metro station.