Pavel Sevyarinets again behind the bars :: Charter'97 :: News

Youth leader Pavel Sevyarinets was sentenced by the Moskovsky city court to 15 nights of arrest. The judgement was made by the judge Olga Smirnova. The policymaker was detained at the presentation of his book “Pages of Destiny” held 19 August at the Brest headquarters of the BNF Party. Pavel Sevyarinets was charged with repeated violation of the mass action procedure stipulated by Article 23.34 Part 3 of the Administrative Code. That was reported by the oppositional policymaker’s lawyer Pavel Alesik to the Charter’97 press-office.

The lawyer is to appeal the judgment at the Brest regional court. ”It is hard to comment on the process as it is so complicated; the conclusions of the court haven’t completely corresponded to the factual state of affairs. The meeting was held at the headquarters of the BNF Party that totally complies with the law on mass action”, Pavel Alesik declared.

Presentation of Pavel Sevyarinets book “Pages of Destiny «was held 19 August at the Brest headquarters of the BNF Party. 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.

That day 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. Yesterday the trial was once again postponed due to the absence of the prosecutor’s witness and confusions in the report. Until the trial Pavel Sevyarinets was kept at the remand prison of the Moskovsky district in Brest.