Viachaslau Kasinerau Released

The activist has spent 10 days in Akrestsina for participation in an authorized meeting.

Public activist, "graffiti case" figurant Viachaslau Kasinerau, who was sentenced to 10 days of administrative arrest, was released from the temporary detention facility in Akrestsin Street in Minsk on May 12, Radio Racyja informs.

Kasinerau was tried under Art. 17.1 of the Code of Administrative Offenses (petty hooliganism) for a fusee at the authorized meeting of the Belarusian Congress of Democratic Trade Unions in Minsk on May 1.

The activist was detained after the meeting, but in the evening of the same day he was released without drawing up a protocol. On 2 May, he came to the courthouse, awaiting consideration of his detained colleague’s case. There Kasinerau was again detained and taken to the Tsentralny district police department for drawing up a protocol.

A few hours later, the activist was brought to court, a report was drawn up against him under Art. 23.34 of the Administrative Code (violation of the procedure for organizing and holding mass events). Kasinerau was accused of holding an unauthorized mass event near the sanctioned rally held at the same time on May 1.

However, after getting acquainted with the protocol, the judge sent it for revision, Kasinerau spent the night in the center of isolation of the offenders in Akrestsin Street.

As reported, the participants of the rally, organized on May 1 by the Belarusian Congress of Democratic Trade Unions in the Kiev square in Minsk, had a conflict with the anarchists. Half an hour after the event started, three anarchists headed by Kasinerau came to the square. Dressed in black, they put up the banner "Freedom, Equality, Self-Government".

During the speech of the chairman of the Belarusian Congress of Democratic Trade Unions, Aliaksandr Yarashuk, Kasinerau lit a fusee, and then started talking through a megaphone. In particular, he said that political prisoners remained in the country.

Leaving the square, three anarchists were detained by the police officers in civilian clothes. On May 2, anarchist movement activist Aliaksei Zuyeu was punished with a fine of 10 basic units (245 rubles) for hiding his face under the mask at the sanctioned event, which is prohibited by law.