Journalist Andzej Poczobut fined

Hrodna Leninski Borough Court fined representative of the Polish minority in Belarus Andzej Poczobut BYR 525,000 for participating in an unauthorized meeting in front of the Dom polski on 17 January. The journalist says the verdict by judge Natallia Kozel is illegal since the rally was provoked by Josuf Lucznik, head of the pro-government Union of Poles.