Trial of 14: prosecutor demands two years of restraint of liberty (Photo)

The trial over three accused on the case of 14 goes on. The accused are Paval Vinahradau, minor Maksim Dashuk and entrepreneur Mikhal Subach. The prosecutor demanded two years of restraint of liberty for each without sending them to penal institutions.

Lawyers asked to acquit all accused. According to them, the investigation didn’t present evidence of their guilt. Teh accused weren’t identified on the video materials, Radio Svaboda informs.

Witnesses for the prosecution were heard at the trial yesterday. Directors of GUM department store, Lasunak shop, Tsentralny supermarket and shared taxi park said they hadn’t seen the accused before and had no financial claims to them.

Traffic militia officers, except for Maksim Padbyarozkin, deputy head of the Minsk traffic militia, said they had never seen the accused before and hadn’t noticed any violations of public order by demonstrators on 10 January. Representatives of Minsktrans enterprise said public transport worked normally, and passengers hadn’t complained, Radio Svaboda reports.

14 opposition activists are involved in the case on participation in protest actions of entrepreneurs. 10 of them have been already convicted. Youth activist Andrei Kim is sentenced to one and a half year in penal colony by the Central district court of Minsk. Other participants of the trial of 14 – Alyaksei Bondar, Artsyom Dubski, Mikhal Kryvau, Mikhal Pashkevich, Ales Straltsou, Ales Charnyshou, Tatsyana Tishkevich are sentenced to correctional labour without sending them to penitentiary institutions. They must charge the state 20 per cent of their wages. Anton Koipish and Uladzimir Syarheeu are fined of 100 basic units. The judgement was read by Alena Illina.

It should be reminded that about 5 thousand entrepreneurs attended the protest action on 10 January. They blocked off Independence Avenue protesting against discriminative decrees of Alyaksandr Lukashenka.

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