Distributor of "Vitebskiy Kuryer" gets fined

On 6 June the Kastrychnitski District Court of Vitsebsk considered an administrative case against Siarhei Kandakou. He was tried on the basis of a police report, drawn up on 2 May, when the police confiscated 18 copies of the "Vitebskiy Kuryer" he intended to throw into postboxes.

Judge Ina Hrabouskaya found the newspaper distributor guilty of violating Article 22.9, part 2 of the Code of Adminsitrative Violations, "unlawful distribution of mass media" and sentenced him to a fine of 2 million rubles (about $245), which is quite a considerable sum for a disabled man, who gets just 650,000 rubles of pension a month.