Dzmitry Paliyenka: I Will Not Set A Foot In Their Office Voluntarily

Police arranged a provocation against the activist.

Activist Dzmitry Paliyenka wrote about a strange provocation, which this morning was arranged by the police against him and the people who came to support him in the Zavodski district court of Minsk:

“It turns out that I didn’t need to come to the city police department-2 by 8 a.m. (a police station in Anharskaya Street). And later, until 12:40, sit and ride together with “drunken guys” and “ink fairies”.

As soon as they started putting people into cars to take them to court, a man in civilian clothes stopped me and locked me in the office. Later, he asked if I had a VKontakte page. I said no. He began to laugh and blabber “Are you positive? Well, beware then! ”- I don't know what it was and what it was for. After that, they called me to the inspection office, and once again (for the 5th time) asked why I did not attend lectures, and gave the paper to appear at 9:10 tomorrow at the police station.

The lawyer and the people who came to support me (Maxim Viniarski and Volha Nikalaichyk) spent about 3 hours in the court and outside. Punitive structures with their misinformation and behavior once again decided to mock and scorn me, and the people who wanted to support me in court.

What do you think, is it worth going somewhere after today? I do not think so.

If they need to make me come there, let them call their white-blue taxi, and deliver me. I will not set a foot in their office voluntarily.

This morning Dzmitry Paliyenka was detained at the police station on Anharskaya Street in Minsk, where he had been summoned earlier.

Dzmitry Paliyenka was released from prison on October 24, and is supposed to come to the Zavodzki district police department almost every day to listen to the lectures, related to employment issues. The ex-political prisoner attended several such lectures, but then refused to do it any longer by principle.

In his appeal to the prosecutor’s office, the activist noted that the actions of the police officers were illegal, no one has a right to force him to work. Daily calls to the mentioned lectures can also be regarded as groundless control and violation of rights and freedoms.

“The first trial has not yet ended, but they have already sent me a subpoena to the second one,” Dzmitry posted in the social networks. “I have already declared my attitude to these lectures, why I don’t go there and have no intention to attend them further on. I will not dance to the tune of those who had thrown me behind bars, I will not be a fish on the rod.”

Dzmitry Paliyenka added that the protocol against him was compiled under Article 23.4 (“disobedience to a legal demand of a police officer”).

“The first trial is on December 6, the second one is scheduled for December 19,” he says. “I don’t know what the sentence will be, but such activity of the police alerts. Apparently, they have some special interest to me.”