Another Lawsuit for Defaming the President :: Charter'97 :: News

Rechitsa town procuracy opened legal proceedings against a 24-year old UCP activist Natalya Brel. The young lady had been taken into custody immediately after she brought into the Rechitsa territorial commission for elections a present for the head of state. Inside the parcel there was a rope, tied in a loop, a piece of soap, women’s cosmetics and a number of sketches of political content. The lady asked to hand in everything personally to Alexander Lukashenko. The core sense of the action got down to about this: for you, dear president, I can sacrifice the last that I have.

In response, the state procuracy instituted criminal action over “defaming the president’s honor and dignity”. September 4 Natalya Brel was summoned for interrogation to the procuracy, from where they delivered her to a detention ward. BelaPAN reports that they assigned her a lawyer not until September 6. Dmitry Ivanishko said that the lady refused to give testimony. He added that the accusation would be voiced no later than September 8.