Zmitser Khvedaruk had trial in absentia on 12 May, but the activist received a notice of the judgement only after 11 days.<\/p>\n
\u201cSo, I wasn\u2019t even given time for appealing against the unlawful sentence,\u201d Zmitser Khvedaruk told to the Young Front press service. \u201cIt\u2019s interesting to note that the judicial decision says I received a summons and even signed it. But I, as other participants of the action on 1 May, didn\u2019t receive any summons and didn\u2019t sign anything. It is lies.\u201d<\/p>\n
Zmitser Khvedaruk was accused of the fact \u201che was staying near the library with a blue flag with yellow stars, by these action calling citizens to join the European Union.\u201d A militia report of \u201cresistance\u201d notes that \u201cwhen militia officers came up to Zmitser Khvedaruk, he fell to the ground, and officers had to use force.\u201d<\/p>\n
It should be reminded that activists of the campaign \u201cEuropean Belarus\u201d raised up EU flags during the celebration of the Day of Europe near the National Library, after that they (about 30 people) were detained by riot militia officers. Militiamen snatched away flags, broke flagpoles, beat people during the detention.<\/p>\n
Reports for \u201cviolation of order of holding mass events\u201d were drawn up in the Pershamaiski district militia department against youth activists Zmitser Dashkevich, Artur Finkevich, Zmitser Khvedaruk, Yauhen Afnahel, Paval Yukhnevich and Maksim Serhiets. Most of the young men were sentenced to 7-day arrests in absentia.<\/p>\n
Earlier Mikola Statkevich, one of the action organisers and one of the leaders of the \u201cEuropean Belarus\u201d campaign, served a 15-day arrest for participation in the action near the National Library.<\/p>\n
Radio Svaboda notes that legislative rules forbid deliver judgement on the articles of the law on mass events, when the accused is not invited to court.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Zmitser Khvedaruk, one of the leaders of the Young Front, was sentenced in absentia to 10 days of arrest for participation in the action on 1 May, the Day of Europe. Besides, he must pay a fine of 30 basic units for allegedly resistance to militia during the detention.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":215500,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[14],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/europeanbelarus.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200087"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/europeanbelarus.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/europeanbelarus.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/europeanbelarus.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/europeanbelarus.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=200087"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/europeanbelarus.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200087\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/europeanbelarus.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/215500"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/europeanbelarus.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=200087"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/europeanbelarus.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=200087"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/europeanbelarus.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=200087"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}