Consideration of appeal of invalid Marozau postponed to 12 January
Minsk resident Uladzimir Marozau choked to unconscious by people in mufti on July 6 outside the National Library
The consideration of Uladzimir Marozau’s appeal
against the refusal to instigate a criminal case concerning an unlawful assault
of police officers on him, was postponed to 12 January due to the failure of
the procuracy to timely pass the case materials to the Pershamaiski District
Court. The trial will start at 9.45
a.m. on 12 January.
Bear in mind that on 6 July 2011 the invalid was sitting on a bench near the National
Library. An action of protest was taking place there at the time. A man in
plain clothes approached him and told him to go away. The man didn’t introduce
himself and didn’t show his policeman’s ID, that’s why the pensioner said that
he wasn’t taking part in any actions and continued sitting on the bench.
After this, several policemen threw him on the ground and started smothering. On
11 November the Pershamaiski District Procuracy of Minsk refused to instigate a
criminal case on the fact because of “absence of corpus delicti” in actions of
the policemen.
Uladzimir Marozau suffers from heart illnesses and diabetes. It is difficult
for him to move. He wrote about it in his appeal to the Minsk prosecutor.
