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Zmitser Bandarenka: If Sanctions Lifted, You'd Better Wait for Another Murder

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A shoe on a face of a journalist is, in fact, a Lukashenka's foot on the Belarusian journalism.

Zmitser Bandarenka, coordinator of the European Belarus civil campaign and former political prisoner, stated that in his comments on the situation with the beating of Pavel Dabravolski.

Zmitser Bandarenka noted that it was time for everyone to show solidarity with those journalists who had suffered from lawlessness and had been even killed.

"It is not worth saying that we face some liberalization and changes. A shoe on a face of a journalist is, in fact, a Lukashenka's foot on the Belarusian journalism. Journalists must be loud today and require sanctions against the regime, in order to stay alive and not to be beaten up," he noted.

If sanctions are lifted after the recent events, it is likely possible that an author of a political graffiti or a journalist will be killed after a while, Bandarenka states.

It should be reminded that the hearing on "graffiti case" started in the Frunzenski district court of Minsk on January 25. The hearing started with a solidarity action. Two young men Pavel Siarhei and Maksim Shytsikau had a poster "No to Political Persecution", one of them shouted "No to Political Persecution!", "Art Is not a Crime!", "It's not a Hearing, but Show!". Young men were beaten up by the police in the court-house and then fined $450 and $500.

The journalist of Tut.by was detained along with those protesting and beaten up. He shot the removal of young men on camera. The detainees say that they were delivered dozens of strikes. The sounds of beating were heard in the courtroom.

Pavel Dabravolski applied to the Investigative Committee against beating by the riot police while performing his duties.

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