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Leanid Kulakou: Policemen made me transport them in my car

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Leanid Kulakou: Policemen made me transport them in my car

One of the activists who works as a taxi driver, told about details of detention and stay in the remand prison of “European Belarus” activists.

Today, June 22, sentences in the administrative cases of “European Belarus” activists Maxim Vinyarski and Syarhei Makojts, were passed by Minsk district court (Mayakovski Street, 119a). Maxim Vinyarski was sentenced to 10 days of administrative arrest (Article 23.34 Part 3 of the Administrative Code, Judge M. Harelau); Syarhei Makojts – to 5 day’s arrest (Article 23.34 Part 1 of the Administrative Code, Judge S. Tkachuk). The trial over the third one, Leanid Kulakou, was rescheduled for June 23 after a petition of the lawyer to subpoena witnesses. The three were detained on Friday for placing a banner “Freedom to Yury Rubtsou!” on the road coming from Lahojski Trakt, and they were placed to the remand prison of Minsk district for the weekend. Thanks to the court proceedings postponed for June 23, Leanid Kulakou, who works as a taxi driver, was able to tell the reporter of charter97.org website about details of his stay in the remand prison.

“After the detention policemen demanded me to transport them and myself as a detainee in my car to the remand prison of Minsk district, in Francis Skaryna Street, 20. The conditions in the remand prison of Minsk district are a little bit better than in Smalyavichy, but the conditions are equally unhygienic: there is no enclosing for the toilet, there is no washing sink. We were placed into a cell for 8. The cell is very narrow, we had to move sideward. Beside us, there were mostly drunkards there. But in the spirit of the time, there was a refugee from Ukraine there: a 45-year-old military veteran from Mariupol. He lives in Hatava near Minsk here. He was a work permit, but his wife is to be deported from Belarus soon. He told that he was afraid to sleep in the cell, as when he told who is really shelling Ukrainian towns, the rest of the prisoners started to view him as a “traitor”. When he learnt that we know that pro-Russian terrorists are carrying out shelling of peaceful population, he was greatly surprised, that we know that unlike the majority of the people. And when we told that we were in the Maidan, and sang the Ukrainian anthem with him, tears flowed from his eyes,” the activist said.

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