In Prison Health Of Political Prisoner Yauhen Afnagel Declined 18:37, 20/02/2006
An observable decline in health of one of the leaders of youth resistance movement Zubr Yauhen Afnagel has taken place. An ambulance had been called in because he had very bad backache. Doctors recommended painkillers, but refused to take him to a hospital.
Yauhen Afnagel was detained on February 13. On this day mass arrests of Zubr activists took place in Minsk. Riot policemen detained 22 activists of the resistance movement. All detainees were taken to Partyzanski district police department, searched, pictured, video-filmed; and their fingerprints were taken. All Zubr activists except Yauhen Afnagel were released. Yauhen Afnagel spent a night in the special detention center in Akrestsyn street. ON the next day he was sentenced.
As Yauhen Afnagel had not done anything wrong, policemen cynically charged the oppositionist of committing a “petty hooliganism”. They alleged that he uttered curses. Such charges are usually brought up against oppositionists in order to lock them in prison for 10-15 days. The same riot policemen in mufti, who seized young people who were peacefully standing in Victory Square, were witnesses in court: police staff sergeant Zmitser Lamaka and private Andrei Tsedrik. The verdict, 15 days of arrest, was delivered by judge Ala Dziminskaya.
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