Journalists Barbarych and Yarashevich appeal court verdicts
The independent journalists informed
the Belarusian Association of Journalists about filing appeals
against their arrest with Minsk City Court.
In their appeals
Henadz Barbarych and Aliaksandr Yarashevich point to numerous
discrepancies in the testimonies of the police witnesses and the
failure of the court to listen their own witnesses.
Moreover,
the case against Henadz Barbarych contained Xerox copies from the
police reports in Yarashevich's case, not attested in the due order,
which couldn't be considered as evidence of his guilt.
Bear in
mind that the independent journalists were detained in Minsk on 26
April after the end of the authorized "Chernobyl Way" rally
they had covered. They were presented with administrative charges and
subsequently sentenced to three days of arrest by Savetski District
Court of Minsk.
