12 days of arrest for visit to Catholic church
On 8 February Yauhen Khatkevich, Judge of the
Maskouski District Court of Minsk, sentenced a Minsk resident Mikhas Lebedz to
12 days of arrest.
Mr. Lebedz was found guilty of participation in a picket of solidarity held by
activists of youth organizations in Nezalezhnastsi Square in Minsk on 20
December.
The administrative case of the detainee was considered several times, as the
police witnesses were giving discrepant testimonies. During the last sitting
the defendant informed the court about lodging a complaint with the procuracy
concernign the unlawful detention. The judge announced a break to familiarize
with the results of the prosecutorial check-up.
Mikhas Lebedz was detained on 20 December on the way to St. Symon and Alena
church in central Minsk. He was knocked down and hit with a truncheon several
times and then pulled into a police car. Several hours after the detention
officers of the delinquents' isolation center in Akrestsin Street called an
ambulance for the activist, which took him to the Minsk clinical hospital No.
10.
