Aliaksandr Makayeu to be tried for a rally on Slutsk uprising anniversary
A major and a lieutenant colonel from the Kopyl District Police
Department came to Ales Makayeu in Minsk to draw up a report for
organising an “unsanctioned rally”.
The activist does not
agree with the charge, Belorusski Partizan reports.
On 13
December two officers of the Kopyl police department – major A.
Shapashnikau
and lieutenant colonel deputy chief of the police department –
visited head of "Razam" solidarity movement Ales
Makayeu at work. The
policemen questioned Ales Makayeu and drew up a report for organising
an unsanctioned rally. The documents were written in Belarusian.
The
police report was drawn up over part 3 of article 23.34 of the Code
of Administrative Offences. According tot the report, Ales Makayeu
organised a rally in the village of Hrozau (Kopyl district, Minsk
region) at noon on 1 December. It was his second administrative
offence during the year (Makayeu was tried for organising an
unsanctioned event on 20 December 2011). The activist is accused of
failure to receive permission for the rally in the Kopyl District
Executive Committee.
Ales Makayeu wrote in his explanatory
note that he didn't agree with the charge: the application to the
Slutsk district executive committee had been filed by BPF party, but
was declined.
Police have been looking for Ales Makayeu for a
week. Policemen from Kopyl arrived in Minsk to see Ales Makayeu just
after he and his children returned from treatment abroad on 11
December.
Activists of BPF party, For Freedom movement and BCD
visited the places of the Slutsk Uprising on 1 December. The trip was
organised by "Razam" solidarity movement.
