At “Process of Fourteen” Judge Prohibited Policeman to Speak Belarusian
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15:57, — Politics
The trial over participants of the protest of small businessmen on January 10 continues in the court of Tsentralny district of Minsk. Questions asked in Belarusian were answered in Belarusian by a traffic policeman Alyaksandr Subach. However Judge Alena Illyina told him to speak Russian.
Today a witness was interrogated as well. Witness Padbyarozkin, an immediate chief of allegedly “person affected”, a traffic policeman Sychou, told that a democratic activist Tatsyana Tsishkevich allegedly “aggressively attacked the traffic policeman, and was in a forefront of the uncontrollable BPF column”. Padbyarozkin also assured that demonstrators were beating him up.
During the trial the judge made observations to Tatsyana Tsishkevich and Mikhail Pashkevich for laughing at evidence of witnesses, and warned they could be expelled from the court room.
After the break Judge Illyuna started to question a traffic policeman Alyaksandr Subach. Radio Svaboda notes that a witness Alyaksandr Subach answered in Belarusian to questions in Belarusian, but Judge Illyina told him to speak Russian.
During the interrogation Subach said that nobody hit him, and demonstrators were not occupying all lines of traffic of Independence Avenue, but marched along one of them.
A witness Andrei Sharamet, another traffic policeman, told in the court that when protesters blocked the traffic near Independence Square, an ambulance was allowed to pass. Earlier witness Abramau, who had confused Independence Avenue and Viktor’s Avenue, claimed that young people at the rally on January 10 were not allowing an ambulance to pass by.
By the way, from the documents studied in the court it springs that ambulance didn’t register any hindrances to its work on the day of the rally in Minsk.
After that evidence the judge read out administrative reports of January 10. She refused to consider appeals for interrogation of defense witnesses.
At the same time, she admitted that the Belarusian TV and Radio company gave its video footage to the KGB. A video film of the ONT Channel was among the materials of the case as well, Nasha Niva informs.
Then the judge analyzed pictures at internet-sites, looking for the defendants at them. Video materials are prepared for examination.
Photo by "Nasha Niva"
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