Vadzim Kabanchuk sentenced to 10 days of arrest

In the morning of 15 February Vadzim's mother, Taisiya Kabanchuk, was waiting for him at the Maskouski District Court of Minsk, where he was to have been taken for a trial. His friends phoned to all Minsk courts trying to find about the time and place of the trial. Only in the afternoon they were informed that the trial had already taken place, Vadzim had been sentenced to 10 days of arrest for participation in the 19 December protest action in central Minsk, and guarded to the delinquents' isolation center in Akrestsin Street.

Vadzim Kabanchuk was detained on 13 Febraury at the border crossing point Kamenny Loh while returning home from Lithuania. The customs officers found in his belongings about 100 newspapers issued by Belarusian activists outside Belarus ad covering the socio-political events following the presidential election. The newspapers were confiscated and directed for an expertise.