A verdict to the young leader Mikita Sasim is to be passed tomorrow at 9.45 a.m. in the court of Baranavichy district and Baranavichy. The prosecutor demanded to sentence Mikita Sasim to 6 months of arrest. Lawyer Alyaksandr Haliev believes that none of the charges presented against Sasim had been confirmed. “Many dates are not congruent. The charge that Mikita had left earlier from the hospital in which he had been placed after brain injury is pointless. Allegedly it was draft evasion. We insist on a verdict of not guilty,” the Charter’97 press center was told by lawyer Alyaksandr Halieu.
In Svetlahorsk (Homel region) a 20-year-old young activist Andrei Muzychenka has been fired out. Andrei worked at a district communications center as an apprentice of an electrician.
On Monday, May 15 at 2.30 p.m. in the court of Lida district a final session of the court in the case of Ivan Kruk, a civil and political activist from Astravets.
In the process over the youth leader Mikita Sasim an adjournment was announced until 2.40 p.m. As the witnesses for prosecution are at serious variance, judge demanded to bring Sasim’s personnel file from the military enlistment office.
An unknown officer of the KGB (State Security Committee) exerts pressure on 16-year-old youth activist Andrei Kuzmitsky. As the Charter’97 press center was told by the youth activist, on May 10 a man who presented himself as a KGB officer, took him from the office of the school headmaster, took him to his car, put a sack on his head and brought him to an underground floor of an unknown building. The KGB officer told him to stand face to the wall, placed a metal object to his temple and told that he would kill him in case he wouldn’t do what he was demanded.
A former Chairman of the Supreme Soviet of Belarus, a leader of the Belarusian Social-Democratic Hramada Stanislau Shushkevich is to visit the police department of Pershamajski district of Minsk on May 11. He is suspected of violation of public order during the rally on Mayday, the Radio Svaboda informs.
The leader of the Party of Communists of Belarus Syarhei Kalyakin was released from special detention center in Akrestsin Street today at 10.30 a.m. By the entrance several dozens of people were waiting for the politician. But policemen allegedly were afraid of the meeting in front of the prison, and they took him home in a police car. According to the Charter’97 press center, at the moment Kalyakin is goes back the detention center again, in order to meet those who had come to him.
Political trials continue in Belarus. Today in the court of Baranavichy and Baranavichy district consideration of the case of youth leader Mikita Sasim starts. A day before a rally of solidarity with political prisoners was held in Belarus. Citizens demanded to release Mikita Sasim immediately. Many participants of the yesterday’s rally on October Square, disbanded by riot policemen, were holding his portraits. A human rights organization “Amnesty International” called upon all human rights watchdog in the world and common citizens to take part in the campaign in support of the Belarusian youth leader. “Amnesty International” states that in case Mikita Sasim would be condemned, he would be recognized a prisoner of conscience.
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