Poets Get Imprisoned for Speaking ‘Ruffian’ Language
14.12.2007.
Tags: administrative trials, language rights, arrest.
Source: RFE/RL.
The poets were detained by riot police near Kastrychnitskaya Square in Minsk on 12 December. ‘We were simply sitting on a bench and speaking Belarusian, which caused the dissent of the policemen’, stated the poets at the trial.
Bear in mind that in the evening of 12 December an unauthorized action For Independent Belarus! took place in Kastrychnitskaya Square. Some of its participants were severely beaten by the police. A youth activist Zmitser Khvedaruk was hospitalized with brain concussion and closed cranial trauma.
See also
18.11.2008 “Young Front” activist faces trial for solidarity rally
11.11.2008 Minsk: ‘Young Front’ activist is detained for action near Leninski district court
10.11.2008 Polatsk: youth activists to stand trial for anti-communist action
10.11.2008 Saliahorsk: human rights activist Yana Paliakova is guarded to court by police
10.11.2008 Minsk: detention at action in support of tried ‘Young Front’ activists
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