Dzianis Sakhar is tried for insubordination to police
On 12 April Dzianis Sakhar, an activist
of the Belarusian National-Bolshevik movement, was tried for alleged
insubordination to the police (Article 23.34 of the Code of
Administrative Violations).
Mr. Sakhar was detained by the
police on 10 August, while the National-Bolsheviks were holding a
sports camp near the Voukavichy water reservoir in the Minsk
district. The police also detained eleven more youngsters with the
use of tear gas and physical violence. They were taken to the
Zhdanovichy District Police Department on six cars and charged with
“drinking alcohol in public”, though they were caught in a forest
and didn't drink alcohol, as far as it is incompatible with
trainings.
The deputy head of the Zhdanovichy DPD Piatkevich
immediately ruled that the detainees were to be fined 100-800
thousand rubles each.
According to “Charter'97”,
the activists hardly managed to set up their tents when the camp was
surrounded by six police cars, from which policemen in mufti and
uniform ran out. They didn't introduce themselves and put the
activists on the ground face down, using physical force. Police gear
– tear gas and handcuffs, were used towards Dzianis Sakhar and the
under-aged activist Aliaksandr Paliakou. After it, the policemen and
KGB officers searched the bags. During the search they used foul
language, threats and violence.
Without composing any
violation reports, they confiscated from the detainees newspapers,
organization symbols and pneumatic weapons.
According to the
observers, the trial of Dzinis Sakhar started at 2 p.m. The case was
considered by Judge Andrei Bialila. The activist filed a petition for
questioning his witnesses and policemen. The judge granted the
petition and postponed the hearing to 26 August.
