Deputy Chair of Barysau District Executive Committee disrupts seminar in Zhodzina
On 28 April the Zhodzina police took participants of
the seminar on regional development to the Zhodzina Town Police Department and
demanded written explanations. According to a Barysau democratic activist
Siarhei Salash, the seminar was disrupted on order of Valiantsina Shutko,
Deputy Chair of the Barysau District Executive Committee.
At first, the authorities disrupted the seminar on regional development in
Barysau, which was to have been held with participation of Barysau democratic
activists and Ukrainian experts. The following day the seminar was to have
taken place in Zhodzina, but was disrupted again. Later it was held in Minsk, without any
problems.
According to Salash's information, Valiantsina Shutko also insists on the
dismissal of one of the activists whom she considered to be an organizer of the
event.
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