Anatol Lyabedzka to stand trial for supporting Union of Poles

Leader of the United Civil Party Anatol Lyabedzka is to stand trial in Valozhyn on March 25.

“I got a telephone call from the Tsentralny district court of Minsk on March 17 and was told about the trial on. They tried to hand in my summons to my relatives, but they refused to take it in my absence,” Lyabedzka said. According to the politician, as he didn’t receive a summons in the established order, he plans to be in Minsk on March 25 and celebrate Freedom Day, BelaPAN reports.

The politician supposes he may be charged under article 17.1 (disorderly conduct) and article 23.4 (disobedience to a lawful order or demand of a law-enforcement officer on duty) of the Code of Administrative Offences.

We remind that the politician was detained on February 15 near a military unit in Valozhyn, where head of the Ivyanets branch of the unregistered Union of Poles in Belarus Teresa Sobol (Tereza Sobal) was having a trial. She was accused of capture the Polish House in Ivyanets. Lyabedzka took pictures of militiamen’s actions, who didn’t allow Union’s activists to enter the military unit. He spent about nine hours in the Valozhyn district militia department.