Battery Factory Opponents Detained In Brest Are At Large

The trials will be held on April 18.

In the morning of April 15, residents of Brest and Brest District started to leave the detention center of the Leninski District Department of Internal Affairs. Most of them were detained on Friday, when they were summoned to the police as witnesses, the Brest Newspaper reports.

It was expected that all the detainees, as usual, would be brought to court in Levaneuski street, but judge Aliaksandr Semianchuk with the secretary came to the police department.

Tatsiana Fesikova, who was detained on April 14, was the first one to be released. Her trial for the distribution of yellow balloons at Lenin Square will be held on April 25.

Before lunch, Dziamjan Lepiasevich, Aleh Vialau, Dzianis Malashenka, Dzmitry Andrasiuk, Siarhei Svirski, Uladzislau Abramovich, Uladzimir Kazlouski and human rights activist Uladzimir Vialichkin left the police department with summons for April 18. They will be tried for the march along Savetskaya and Masherau streets on April 7. We remind that then a column of several hundred of battery factory opponents passed through the city with slogans against the factory.

Aleh Yarmolenka left the detention center with a fine of 30 basic units for participating in the unauthorized march.

At 13.25, Yahor Kandartsiuk, who was detained during the march against the plant, came out. He had a summons for April 25. Mikalai Tratsiuk, who was detained on April 14, came out with a fine of 10 basic units, the trial of Viktar Sendzer will be held on April 25.

Ales Abliak (a summons for April 25) and Vital Kazak (a summons for April 24) were the last to come out.

Dzmitry Bekaliuk was fined one basic unit. The court took into account Dzmitry’s two small children, disabled mother, as well as the days already served.

The summons for April 18 means that the people will be judged just on the eve of the next feeding of pigeons, which battery factory opponents hold in the central square of the city on Sundays.

We remind that for more than a year, there has been an active campaign against the construction of the iPower plant, which is part of the First Battery Company, in the Brest FEZ. For more than a year, the initiative group of Brest residents and residents of the region, as well as its supporters, have been constantly reported numerous violations at different stages of the project.