Three violation reports drawn up on Uruccha protester

Leanid Mazhalski, an protector of the public garden in the suburb of Uruccha, was detained in the morning of 5 July, during the dispersal of a protest of local dwellers against the construction of a multi-stored house for riot policemen on the garden’s place.

The man tried to hinder the builders to set a construction ground. As a result Mazhalski and his wife were guarded to the Pershamaiski District Police Department of Minsk. There he felt bad and an ambulance was called. He received charges under three articles – organization of an unauthorized assembly, hindrance to builders and insubordination to police. The trial will take place on 17 July.