Mikita Likhavid to be tried on 22 March

The first court sitting on the criminal case against Mikita Likhavid (one of the accused of participation in the 19 December “mass riot”, Article 293, part 2 of the Criminal Code) will take place at 10 a.m. on 22 March.

The case will be considered by Natallia Pykina, Judge of the Partyzanski District Court of Minsk.

The For Freedom activist Mikita Likhavid was detained in Nezalezhnasts Square on 19 December 2010 and sentenced to 15-day arrest term. However, on 23 January the verdict was abolished. Mikita was declared an accused in the criminal case on “mass riot” and transferred from the Zhodzina prison to the pre-trial prison in Valadarski Street in Minsk.