Hrodna: the regional court sides with a district court
On 2 December the Hrodna
Region Court considered the appeal of Dzmitry Bandarchuk against the verdict of
the Leninski District Court of Hrodna of 10 November 2010, according to which
he was fined 700,000 rubles (about $230) for the alleged production and an
attempt of distribution of the newspaper Prauda
Niakliayeva.
Judge Zayats didn’t grant the appeal. Nevertheless, Mr. Bandarchuk is sure he
hasn’t violated anything and will continue appealing the verdict at higher
courts. ‘If it’s possible in our country to punish a man for producing and distributing
printed materials in the unknown time and place (in which I am accused) without
even presenting a copy of these materials – it witnesses only that our country
has judicial institutions, but no justice’, commented Dzmitry Bandarchuk.