Picket In Valery Schukin Support Outside Zhodino Detention Center :: Charter'97 :: News

A picket was held on August 13 by the protesters of the Youth Front outside the walls of the Zhodino detention center, where Schukin is serving three-month term. Initially a relay race from Minsk to Zhodino was planned but Minsk executive committee banned it. Then the group of the young picketers arrived to Zhodino by an electric train.

A few campaigners from Zhodino and Smolevichi joined them. The protest took place fifty meters from the detention center building. The young men had T-shirts with “Choose!” logo, with leaflets “Choose freedom!” and “Free Schukin!” were attached.

A few bikers with white-red-white flags in their hands have ridden around the territory of the detention center. Eleven members of the Youth Front were arrested, while the bikers escaped. At the police station the detained wrote explanations and where released in an hour.

The Youth Front members meant to hand over food, newspapers and leaflets to Schukin. But the administration of the center refused to deliver it explaining that this month he had already received such things once.