17th Day of Syarhei Skrabets’ Hunger Strike. His Brother Released 12:13, 01/06/2005
One of the Belarusian opposition activists, former MP and the head of a deputy group “Respublika” Syarhei Skrabets continues a hunger strike in prison for the 17th day, told the lawyer of the former deputy, Mikhail Khomich, to Radio Svaboda. He also told that Alyaksandr Skrabets, younger brother of Syarhei, was released on May 31 with a written undertaking not to leave the place.
Syarhei Skrabets, who was arrested on May 15, immediately announced a hunger strike protesting against groundless charges.
Younger brother of Syarhei Skrabets was detained in Minsk on May 29. Like his brother, he was immediately taken to pre-trial detention center in Brest. There he was interrogated in the case of his elder brother. On May 31 Alyaksandr Skrabets was released with a written undertaking not to leave the place.
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