Participants of rally in memory of "Heavenly Hundred Heroes" in Minsk sentenced to arrests

Closed trials were held in the police department of Tsentralny district of Minsk.

As charter97.org has learnt, the first person convicted for the rally in memory of the Heavenly Hundred’s Heroes was a coordinator of the civil campaign “European Belarus”, Maxim Vinyarski. He was sentenced to 15 days’ arrest. The trial was conducted by Judge Viktoryja Shabunya.

One of the leaders of businessmen movement Alyaksandr Makayeu was sentenced to 15 days of administrative arrest as well.

An activist Yauhen Batura was punished by an administrative arrest of 10 days for laying flowers to the monument of Taras Shevchenko.

One more participant of the memorial event dedicated to the Heavenly Hundred’s Heroes, Mikalai Kolas, was sentenced to 10 days’ arrest.

An activist and a filmmaker Volha Mikalaichyk was sentenced to 5 days of arrest.

On January 22 in the evening about 15 persons lit candles and laid flowers to the monument of Taras Shevchenko, not far from the Embassy of Ukraine. A great portrait of the Belarusian national who was killed in Ukraine, Mikhail Zhyzneuski (Zhiznevski) was unfurled. All participants were detained by law-enforcers right after the rally and taken to the police department of Tsentralny district.

4 persons were released after midnight: Nina Bahinskaia, Dzmitry Zakharevich, Yury Vauchok and Valeryia Charnamortsava. Five detainees stayed at the police department of Tsentralny district until the trial. They are Maksim Vinyarski, the coordinator of "European Belarus", activists Volha Mikalaichyk, Alyaksandr Makaeu, Yauhen Batura and Mikalai Kolas.