Mikalai Statkevich Placed Under Arrest With Expired Term Of Execution

The politician is serving his sentence on the decision of the court, made in May.

Mikalai Statkevich, one of the leaders of the Belarusian National Congress, was put in the Center for Isolation of Offenders in the Akrestsin Street, although the term of execution of his sentence has already expired. This was reported on Facebook by politician’s wife Maryna Adamovich.

She applied to the Center for Isolation of Offenders, where she was informed that Statkevich was serving the sentence following the court decision made in May. It was about the rally on May 1, before which the politician had been preventively detained.

Maryna Adamovich notes that according to the legislation the time limit for execution of such punishment is two months - that is, Mikalai Statkevich was to be arrested no later than in July, and now the time has expired. However, he has been placed in an isolation cell.

We remind that Mikalai Statkevich, the ex-presidential candidate and one of the leaders of the Belarusian National Congress, was detained on August 26 at about 12.00 when he left the house for a meeting. Maryna Adamovich associates this detention with the protest rally, which the opposition intends to hold in Minsk on September 8.