Lukashou may be sentenced to two years in prison :: Charter'97 :: News

At the today’s court session the state prosecutor demanded a two-years–on-probation sentence for public activist Kanstantsin Lukashou. That was reported to the Charter 97’ press-center by rights defender Valery Schukin.The verdict to Kanstantsin Lukashou is to be declared tomorrow at 10.30 a.m.

It is to be mentioned that that this is the second trial of the same criminal case. 3 April the panel of judges of the Minsk city court annulled the Leninsky district court judgment handed down on 20 February due to the lawyer’s appeal. The defense considers that there is no corpus delich in Lukashou‘s actions.

It is also to be mentioned that K. Lukashou was detained 19 December 2006.He was charged of striking the militiamen by car when taking his brother, opposition activist Vyachaslau Siuchik, from the surgery department of the Minsk third hospital. That day unidentified persons with militiamen’s I.D.s made an attempt to detain Siuchik after his discharge from the hospital for the supposed minor public disorder. But with his brother’s help the policymaker managed to escape.

20 February K. Lukashou was declared guilty of the crime in compliance with Article 364 of the Criminal Code of Belarus (violence against militiaman on duty.)He was sentenced to two years on probation with a two- year suspension of the sentence. The court also made a judgment to charge Br 1 million from K. Lukashou in favor of victimized militiaman Anatol Suschenya for compensation of his moral and physical damage.