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Activist Viktar Kazlou: I Will Go To Very End In Search For Truth

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Activist Viktar Kazlou: I Will Go To Very End In Search For Truth
Viktar Kazlou

Homel activist decided to meet with the perjurers from the riot police once again.

Deputy Chair of the Supreme Court Ruslan Aniskevich left the complaint, filed by representative of the independent trade union REP in Homel region Viktar Kazlou, without satisfaction. The latter appealed the resolution of the district court on “loud swearing in a public place”. The intrigue lies in the fact that the 67-year-old man lost his voice after an oncological surgery on his lungs and is forced to wisper instead of normal talking in his everyday life, let alone shouting in the street, gomelspring.org reports.

On March 25, Viktar Kazlou, joined by the trade union active, planned to participate in the “non-parasites” protest march in Homel. Early in the morning, he was detained on the way to the bus stop by riot police officers of the patrol regiment of the Interior Administration of Homel City Executive Committee Aliaksandr Siardziuk, Raman Khurbatau and Aliaksandr Semchanka. They delivered him to the police department first, and then they sent him to the detention center where he spent two days behind the bars, preventively.

“For me, this trial was full of moral suffering,” – Viktar Kazlou whispers. “I lost my voice after an oncological surgery. I took a medical certificate to the court, it stated that a cut of the laryngeal muscle had been performed during the surgery. The judge didn’t believe it though. I think she was protecting the riot policemen who detained me and told lies about me in court.”

Riot police officers of the patrol regiment of the Interior Administration of Homel City Executive Committee Aliaksandr Siardziuk, Raman Khurbatau and Aliaksandr Semchanka in court.

In the reports, the policemen wrote the following: on March 25 they were guarding the public order. They were driving a service vehicle at no higher speed than 20 km p/H, and suddenly heard a man shouting and swearing loudly while going along the pavement. Certainly they stopped and warned the citizen but he didn’t react.

The policemen said the same at the trial.

“The judge rejected Kazlou’s testimony that he didn’t swear because it contradicted the testimonies of the police officers,” – judge of the Homel district court Tamara Zastavnetskaya wrote in her decision. To the medical certificate, presented by Mr. Kazlou, the judge reacted with a guess – “a cut of the laryngeal muscle does not necessarily mean incapability of speaking and shouting”.

Homel lawyer and HR defender Leanid Sudalenka, who is helping the casualty to find justice in this case, was present at the trial in the Homel district court and heard the riot police officers perjuring against Viktar Kazlou, although having been warned about the responsibility for providing false evidence.

As for the court resolution, the lawyer added that the judge had no right to prioritize testimonies of police officers, let alone to motivate a court resolution with guesses and doubts, as it happened in the case of the independent trade union activist.

Viktar Kazlou is ready to “go to the very end” in his search for the truth. He does not exclude that he might meet with the perjurers and so-called law-enforcers in court again, after the Supreme Court – this time it will be a lawsuit on compensation of moral damage to him.

On August 23, he submitted one more complaint, this time in the name of Chairman of the Supreme Court Valiantsin Sukala personally.

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