Head Of Pro-Government Trade Union Detained In Homel For 'Extremism' Removed From Office

Tatsiana Khatskova was sentenced to 15 days of arrest.

The surname of its head disappeared from the website of Homel regional organisation of the Belarusian Trade Union of Bank and Financial Workers. The data of the trade union chairwoman Tatsiana Khatskova were removed from the contact page, noted Flagshtok.

Now this pro-governmental trade union, according to the data on its website, is left without a head. This happened after Khatskova was sentenced to 15 days of arrest for "spreading extremism."

Earlier it was answered in the reception of the trade union and at Khatskova's place of work that she is allegedly on sick leave.

We remind you, on December 19, it became known that the head of the regional organisation of the Belarusian Trade Union of Banking and Financial Workers, Tatsiana Khatskova, was sentenced to 15 days of arrest for a link to an "extremist" group on Facebook. The case was considered by Tsentralny District Court of Homel on December 4.