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Trial over human rights defender Paval Levinau postponed to April 3rd

2008 2008-03-28T17:04:00+0200 1970-01-01T03:00:00+0300 en The Human Rights Center “Viasna” The Human Rights Center “Viasna”
The Human Rights Center “Viasna”

Pershamaiski court of Vitebsk began the trial over human rights defender Paval Levinau. Levinau was detained on March 27th when he was performing his work of a human rights defender. Despite the bad health condition of Paval Levinau, who had to call for ambulance yesterday, judge Alena Zhuk decided to again call for a doctor, and postpone the trial to April 3rd.

 

Paval Levinau is charged with disorderly conduct (Article 17.1) and failure to obey an official when he was performing his task (Article 23.4 of the Administrative Code).

 

Let us remind you, Levinau was detained yesterday near the apartment of Vitebsk journalist Aleh Barshcheuski, where KGB carried out a search for 7 hours.

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