Prakapovich sentenced to pay $300

BCD activist was fined per share memory Zavadski.

Judge Tatsiana Palulekh of Minsk Savetski District Court sentenced today Pavel Prakapovich, activist of the Belarusian Christian Democracy’s organizing committee, to a fine of 2.5 mln rubles (about $300) on charges of staging an illegal picket in memory of journalist Dzmitry Zavadski.

The activist was detained yesterday while displaying a portrait of the disappeared journalist in the central Yakub Kolas Square in Minsk. The picket was aimed at marking the 13thanniversary of Dzmitry Zavadski’s disappearance.