Participants of 19 December protest rally are expelled from educational establishments
Students, who served 10 or 15 days of arrest after the
events on 19 December started to be expelled from college and universities as the Christmas holidays
ended.
Three students of Minsk
Polytechnic College
were among the first who were flunked out. Today this practice has been
extended to students of universities, RFE/RL reports.
The formal reason for expulsion is not absence from lectures (there are no
lectures in late December), but failure to earn credits, which grant admission
to exams.
Ina Kulei, the head of Solidarity, a public committee to defend the
repressed, confirms that some students have already asked for help. She assures
that the expelled students have an opportunity to study abroad, but senior students
will have to choose:
'We have some offers. The European Humanities Universtity (EHU) is to organize
a special program for the repressed; Kalinouski education program is to be
extended. We are holding negotiations with the Embassy of Ukraine. This also
may be individual courses in any country, in the Czech
Republic, Germany
and the Netherlands.
Most of the applicants are senior students. But in accordance with the Polish
Kalinouski program, they cannot be admitted to the same year of study. Besides,
if are talking about part-time education, only a few universities offer
technical courses, most offer to study humanities. So, we encourage students to
struggle at first. We render legal assistance, help to compose complaints,
attract journalists to cover the situation in order deans and rectors not to
take hasty decisions. It’s an independent decision of a student how to
proceed.'
