Baranavichy: police beat 'Young Front' activists
27.05.2008.
Tags: Young Front, beating, Hryshchenia, youth leaders.
Source: Charter`97.
Four national flags appeared opposite the city hall and the Baranavichy city executive committee in the morning of 23 May. After a while Yaraslau Hryshchenia, the leader of Baranavichy branch of Young Front, and his friends Artsiom Lastavetski and Piatro Ruzau were detained in the street. After the policemen searched Yaraslau and found two flags in his bag, they struck him down to the ground and started beating.
Reports on ‘using foul language’ and ‘resistance to the police’ were drawn up against all Young Front members in the police department. Judge Boichyk punished the guys with three days of arrest for ‘bad language’ and fines for ‘resistance’ Lastavetski and Ruzau were fined 350 000 Belarusian rubles (about 164 US dollars), and Yaraslau Hryshchenya – 525 000 rubles (about 246 US dollars).
As Yaraslau Hryshchenia told, the detention conditions in the detention facility were normal, but police refused to accept parcels from outside for the Young Front members on weekends.
See also
13.08.2008 Harassment of civil activists for action of solidarity with Georgia is going on
12.08.2008 Mauliuda Atakulava sentenced to 10 days of jail for action of solidarity with Georgia
08.08.2008 Police and KGB burst into ‘Young Front’ office
06.08.2008 Members of Stanislau Bahdankevich’s initiative group beaten
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