Minsk City Court leaves verdicts to anarchists unchanged

On 8 July the Minsk City Court considered cassation appeals against verdicts to the activists of the anarchist movement Ihar Alinevich, Miklaia Dziadok and Aliaksandr Frantskevich who had been sentenced to different times of imprisonment for a number of political actions including arsons. Two more convicts, Silivonchyk and Vetkin, didn’t file cassation appeals. Bear in mind that in May 2011 they had pleaded guilty and had given testimonies against Alinevich, Dziadok and Frantskevich who plead innocent.

The court considered the cassation appeals and left the verdicts standing. Now the convicts will appeal the verdict at a higher court instance.