Pavel Sevyarinets on trial today :: Charter'97 :: News

Trial of the youth activist Pavel Sevyarinets is due 21 August. That was reported by the oppositional policymaker’s lawyer Pavel Alesik .According to the lawyer Pavel Sevyarinets is charged with repeated violation of the mass action procedure stipulated by Article 23.34 Part 3 of the Administrative Code.

Presentation of Pavel Sevyarinets’ book “Pages of Destiny” held 19 August at the Brest headquarters of the BNF Party is meant here. At the presentation the author and 30 other people were detained . The office of the BNF Party where the presentation was held was intruded by militiamen who announced that there had been a phone call to the militia that the criminals had gathered in the office.

After the detainment Pavel Sevyarinets spent 7 hours at the Maskousky district interior department in Brest. Then he was released and subpoenaed to appear at the interior department 20 August.

Yesterday right from the interior department he was brought to the Maskousky district court but due to the errors in the report and to the fact that it was the end of the working day in the court the decision was taken to postpone the hearing for the next day. Until the trial Pavel Sevyarinets was kept at the remand prison.