Vileika: Valiantsin Susla fined for refusal from dactylography
On 13 May the Vileika District Court fined a local
activist Valiantsin Susla 1,050,000 rubles for refusing to be fingerprinted,
which was qualified as “insubordination to a legal order or demand or a public
agent”.
Valiantsin Susla was asked to give his fingerprints for the first time when he
was invited to the Vileika District Police Department for giving explanations
why his mobile phone number had been registered on Nezalezhnasts Square during the protest
rally of 19 December 2010. However, he refused to do it.
Next time he was invited to the police especially for being fingerprinted. The
writ was sent to his work. Valiantsin received it just two hours before the
time at which he was to have come to the police department. He came to the
police the following day and was told that his case had been sent to the court.
The trial lasted for just about 90 minutes and yilded a predictable result. Now
Mr. Susla, assisted by the local human rights defenders, prepares an appeal
against the verdict.
Human Rights Chronicle
