Vyachaslau Siuchyk Arrested for 10 days :: Charter'97 :: News

Oppositional politician Vyachaslau Siuchyk detained yesterday is in the special remand prison in Akrestsyn Street, the BelaPAN was told by an officer on duty of the remand prison. Mother of the politician, Halina Siuchyk, supposes that her son could have been detained on accusation made against him on May 19. Then V. Siuchyk was found guilty by the Belarusian court in his absence and sentenced to 10 days of arrest.

Siuchyk was detained on Spetember 12 at about 9.20 in the café “Beau Monde” in the center of Minsk, where he was talking to a journalist Pauluk Bykouski.

V. Siuchyk is one of active participanst of the tent camp on October Square in Minsk after the presidential elections. The camp was set up on March 19 and existed for three days, until liquidation by law-enforcers. The politician was detained on the square on March 23 in the evening and taken to the 3rd clinical hospital of Minsk, to surgery department, as he had been beaten up during detention. He had a brain trauma. ON March 29 he managed to escape arrest after being discharged from the hospital.

For several months Siuchyk was in Ukraine, where he was engaged in political activities.