Former political prisoner expelled from university

Young Front activist Uladzimir Yaromenak has learned about his expulsion from a university after serving 15-day arrest for an action of solidarity near the Read Church on December 19.

The guy received a telephone call from the university and was told he could take back his documents.

Uladzimir Yaromenak was a third-year student of the faculty of computer-aided design of Belarusian State University of Informatics and Radioelectronics. In September, Anastasia Palazhanka and he attempted to hang out flags in Minsk centre. They were detained and Uladzimir Yaromenak was sentenced to 12 days in custody. He got a warning from the university he would be expelled after the second arrest.

Uladzimir Yaromenak was sentenced to 3.5 years in a medium security penal colony for the events on October Square in 2010, but was released on August 13, 2011. He continued his education.

“I will go on my study, but in the next academic year and not here. They won’t allow me to study in Belarus quietly. I will not be able to study “quietly” – for this, I must give up my political views, which I am not going to do,” Uladzimir Yaromenak told in an interview to Viasna human rights centre.