Freedom Day Detainees Stand Trials In Belarus

Human rights defenders report almost a hundred trials against the protesters.

Today, the courts of Minsk and other cities of Belarus are considering the administrative cases of detained Freedom Day participants on March 25 and protest actions on March 26, nn.by reports.

Babruisk

Maxim Buinitski, who was detained repeatedly after he has served 15 days of arrest. Judge Gormash fined him for 2 base fees.

Uladzimir Lazarau was detained on March 24 and stood trial for participation in the demonstration on March 12 – a fine for 5 base fees.

Aliaksei Danilenka was detained on March 24 and stood trial for participation in the demonstration on March 12 on theground ofthephoto, found in his cell phone – a fine for 5 base fees.

Homel

The judge of the Central District Court of Homel Aliaksandr Piskunou punished 19-year-old Victar Chumachenka with a 5-days detention.

The court of the Chyhunachny district of Homel punished Ksenia Kavaliova with a fine of 10 base fees (Bn 230). Before the trial, she spent two days in detention.

Aliaksandr Yauseychuk from Homel was sentenced to two days of detention, which he had already served. Now he was called an ambulance, he has diabetes. Judge Siarhei Karmanovich.

NatalliaShchukina – 12 base fees.

Ala Ramanchyk –18 base fees.

Vitsebsk

The activist of the Belarusian Popular Front party from Haradok Leanid Autukhou got 15 days of administrative arrest.

Journalist Artsiom Sizintsau from Vorsha - 10 days.

Human rights activist Leanid Svetsik was sentenced to 15 days of detention for participation in the actions on March 25 and 26.

Minsk

Maskouski district court - political analyst, opposition activist Ales Lahviniec was found guilty of petty hooliganism – he allegedly used faul language. The sentence is 10 days of detention.

Lahviniec was detained in the backyard of his house and brutally beaten. He was sent to hospital.

The Savetski district court sentenced bard Zmitser Zakharevich to 20 days of detention.

BCD activist Dzianis Sadouski was released in the court hall. He was fined for 80 base fees.

Coordinator of the “European Belarus” civil campaign Maxim Viniarski got

8 days of detention. He stood trial in the Partyzanski district court.

The police threatened “to rot in jail” a pensioner who refused to tell his name so the court would not be able to convict him. Valer was detained at the action on March 25. He can’t stand trial due to the absense of documents and because he does not tell his surname.

Judge of the Leninski district court A.Karneichyk fined Aliaksandr Khaukin for 25 base fees.

The Maskouski district court of Minsk convicted the cameraman of Belsat TV-channel Aliaksandr Barazenka for "petty hooliganism" on Freedom Day for 15 days of detention - he allegedly "shouted and swore, and did not react to warnings." Tatsyana Motyl was the judge, riot policemen Artsiom Mikhalevich and Varyvonchyk witnessed against him.

The Leninski district court - Mikita Krasnakutski from the BPF Youth got 10 days of detention.

The trial against head of the cultural ground "Art-syadziba" Pavel Belavus takes place in the court of the Leninsky district.

Pavel, along with his pregnant wife, was detained yesterday, on March 26 in the Kastrychnitskaya Square in Minsk. His wife was soon released, and Pavel was taken to the Center for Isolating Offenders in Akrestsin Street, where he spent the night.

34-year-old Pavel Staravoitau, a car wash worker, was convicted today for 10 days of detention by the Maskouski district court. There were no witnesses in the case.

Yana Bezliudava, the granddaughter of activist Nina Bahinskaya, was fined for 30 base fees.

Activist and director Volga Nikolaychik got 10 days of detention.

The activist of the "European Belarus" Leanid Kulakou was sentenced to the maximum punishment at the moment - 25 days of arrest, by the judge of the Savetski district court Maryna Fiodarava.

Maxim Kavaliou — 30 base fees.

Olga Roshchina, a Russian citizen — 13 days of detention.

The Leninski district court sentenced Ruslan Tsiareshchanka for 15 days of detention.

Artsiom Charniak - 12 days of detention.

Alexey Polikhovich - 12 days of detention.

Artsiom Linnik – 30 base fees.

Aliaksandra Spiryna – 25 base fees

V.Filchanka – a fine for Bn 92.

Nastassia Kukhta – a fine for Bn 69.

Dzmitry Haponau – 10 days of detention.

Aliaksandr Krasachka – a fine for Bn 230.

Dzmitry Dzemidau – a fine for Bn 230.

P.Samadurau — 25 base fees.

Natallia Bordak — 7 days of detention.

Pavel Liakh — 11 days of detention.

Mikalai Bury — 10 base fees.

Raman Pratasevich — 10 days of detention

Ivan Areshkau — a fine for Bn 115.

D.Mishakouski — 5 days of detention.

Yury Smirnou — 25 base fees.

Dzmitry Shylak — 25 base fees.

А. Hasenkou — 25 base fees.

J.Haba — 10 days of detention

S.Vilkouski — 20 base fees.

Aliaksei Shaludkou — 27 base fees.

Dzmitry Labunou — 20 base fees.

A.Sitko — 10 days of detention.

I.Talkach — a fine for Bn 60.

Piotr Rabushka — 5 days of detention

Aliaksandr Papok — 29 base fees.

Siarhei Kvachonak — 10 days of detention.

Aliaksei Shalutka — 27 base fees.

Anatol Fralou — 10 base fees.

Polatsk

Human rights activist Yury Belsky was found guilty of hooliganism - he allegedly used faul language in the morning of March 25, when he was summoned for a conversation to the Investigative Committee.

Viktar Stukov, who was detained after a search at the Polatsk office of the Free Trade Union of Belarus, wasfined for 20 base fees.

Brest

“European Belarus” activist Palina Sharenda-Panasiuk was fined for 15 base fees by the judge of the Maskouski district court of Brest. On Saturday, the activist was detained and charged with hooliganism. Until today, the woman was in the temporary detention facility. Despite her appeals and complaints that she is the mother of two little children, she was not allowed to go home.