Vileika: court turned down appeal against ban of solidarity action
Yauhen Parchynski, an activist of Free Region,
appealed the ban of the Freedom Day action, signed by Viachaslau Durnou, Deputy
Chair of the Navapolatsk Town Executive Committee.
The action was banned because of the stated aims: the organizers wanted to
express their solidarity with political prisoners. According to Mr. Durnou, the
action that took place in Minsk
on 19 December 2010 was non-constitutional and therefore there couldn't be any
actions of support to the people who took part of it.
However, no trials of participants of the action took place by the time of the
action. That's why Mr. Parchynski considered the action ban as groundless.
But Judge Alena Vertashonak took the side of the town authorities. Moreover,
she didn't let the Polatsk democratic activist Viktar Kalesnik to participate
in the trial as the public representative of Yauhen Parchynski. Moreover, later
she ordered him to leave the court hall, accusing him of contempt of the court.
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