UPB Activist Ihar Bantsar sentenced to 5 days of arrest
Journalist Andrzej
Pisalnik said that Ihar Bantsar, an activist of the Union of Poles in Belarus, was
sentenced to five days of arrest.
Bantsar was found guilty of disorderly conduct. The case against him was heard
in a police department. Bantsar’s relatives and journalists were not allowed to
enter the building, because the police department is a secure facility,
policemen explained. Only Bantsar’s lawyer Uladzimir Kisialevich attended the
trial. As PIsalnik noted in an interview to BelaPAN,
it was a closed-doors trial in fact.
Mr. Bantsar was detained on early morning of 14 June. There was no information
about the reasons for the detention and his location. It became known only in
the evening of 14 June that he was accused of disorderly conduct.
According to the Polish radio TOK FM, Ihar
Bantsar declared a hunger-strike of protest.
