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UPB Activist Ihar Bantsar sentenced to 5 days of arrest

2011 2011-06-15T16:59:36+0300 1970-01-01T03:00:00+0300 en The Human Rights Center “Viasna” The Human Rights Center “Viasna”
The Human Rights Center “Viasna”

Journalist Andrzej Pisalnik said that Ihar Bantsar, an activist of the Union of Poles in Belarus, was sentenced to five days of arrest.

Bantsar was found guilty of disorderly conduct. The case against him was heard in a police department. Bantsar’s relatives and journalists were not allowed to enter the building, because the police department is a secure facility, policemen explained. Only Bantsar’s lawyer Uladzimir Kisialevich attended the trial. As PIsalnik noted in an interview to BelaPAN, it was a closed-doors trial in fact.

Mr. Bantsar was detained on early morning of 14 June. There was no information about the reasons for the detention and his location. It became known only in the evening of 14 June that he was accused of disorderly conduct.

According to the Polish radio TOK FM, Ihar Bantsar declared a hunger-strike of protest.

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