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Police Statements Are Lies and Beyond a Common Sense, Siuchyk Says

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Police Statements Are Lies and Beyond a Common Sense, Siuchyk Says
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On May 3 the Tsentralny District Court of Minsk fined Vyachyslau Siuchyk, leader of Razam movement, 60 basic units (Br12.6 million).

Siuchyk informed BelaPAN he had been fined for participation in Freedom Day's action on March 25 (Article 23.34 AC - violation of order or delivery of mass events). More than 10 politicians and activists were earlier fined for the action.

It should be reminded that Mingorispolkom authorized the Freedom Day in the following format: the gathering point was near the Oktyabr cinema, march along Surhanava Street up to Banhalor Square, the rally in the People's Friendship Park. However, before the authorized march some politicians and activists took part in the flower-laying ceremony to the Yanka Kupala monument in the eponymous public garden, held a rally and marched along Nezalezhnastsi Avenue to the Oktyabr cinema that was not authorized by the Minsk City Executive Committee (Mingorispolkom).

The second administrative case related to Siuchyk's detention in the night of April 19. He was accused of disorderly conduct and defiance of the police (Art. 17.1 and 23.4 of the Administrative Code).

The court fined 10 basic units for disorderly conduct, and sent the case of defiance of the police to be fixed.

Siuchyk pleads not guilty and says that "police statements are lies and beyond a common sense."

On April 19, according to the politician, he was coming home in the night, however, the police beat him and took to the Tsentralny RUVD. "I did not wear my glasses, and had no possibility to sign any protocols. They did not talk to me. The one thing they said they "will not repose power in my hands," he pointed out.

After his detention civil rights activists expressed concern about actions of the police. On April 20 the politician was delivered to the Court of Tsentralny district of Minsk, which decided to return back the protocols due to the fact that the time and place of the offense did not comply with the protocol of detention.

On April 20 police officers delivered a summons to appear in the court on April 21. However, the court granted the motion to postpone the hearing, because his lawyer was unable to be present at the trial.

Siuchyk returned to Belarus in September 2015 after a few years spent abroad. He had to leave the country after events of December, 2010, being afraid of persecution. In 2012 Siuchyk registered Razam solidarity movement in the Czech Republic. It aimed at promotion of democracy in Belarus and Ukraine. Now it works as an organizing committee in Belarus.

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