Two Protest Marchers Get 10 Days Each 11:10, 23/04/2002
The Sovietsky district court of Minsk sentenced two participants of the social Protest March “CAN’T LIVE LIKE THAT!”, ZUBR activists Yaroslav Steshik and Ivan Degtyarev to 10 days of arrest. Another ZUBR member Vasily Zhakov received 5 days. They also ruled 4 days of jail against the “Vesna” human rights center observer Oleg Zhludko, who, when in prison, went on a hunger-strike. Today the human rights defender will be set at liberty. Professor Georgy Lepin, detained and beaten by police on April 19, was fined 50 minimal wages ($485). Elena Reshetnikova, another dissenter, was fined 100 minimal wages ($970).
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