Brest: first detentions for People's Assembly
Liavontsi Chypurnykh, the deputy chair of the Brest city department of the Belarusian Leftist Party “Fair World”, was detained in the evening of 3 October.
Radio Svaboda learnt this from the chair of the party’s
city department Liudmila Dzianisenka, who said that the activist had been
detained when he was gathering signatures to hold the People’s Assembly:
“Policemen said Chypurynykh had been handing out leaflets calling to an
unauthorized event. Liavontsi was gathering signatures in his house and handing
out invitations. Someone called police and he was detained. Liavontsi spent the
night in a police station. He will be tried today. We are figuring out when the
trial begins. We’re going to come and support him,” Liudmila Dzianisenka said.
“It’s the first time when a representative of a left party has been detained in
Brest. They
have not bothered us before, but now, ahead of the People’s Assembly, they
became more active,” she added.
This is the first detention for the People’s Assembly in Brest. Before, only people in Baranavichy
were detained in the Brest
region. On 22 September, activist Siarhei Auchynnikau was fined 525,000 rubles
for handing out leaflets. On 29 September, Viktar Tsiapin was detained for
leaflets with information about the People’s Assembly. He will stand trial on 6
October. On 30 September, the local coordinator of People’s Assembly, Viktar Meaziak,
was detained in Baranavichy.
