BELARUS NEWS AND ANALYSIS

DATE:

17/01/2008

Belarusian Authorities Imprison More Civil Activists

Belarusian authorities on January 16 sentenced several more activists for their participation in the January 10 protest against the restrictions on small-business activities, and detained 10 youths for their participation in the action of solidarity with political prisoners in Belarus, Belapan and RFE/RL's Belarus Service reported. A court in Mahilyou sentenced Valadar Tsurpanau, an organizer of the January 10 vendors' protest there, to 10 days in jail for violating the law on mass events. Minsk courts sentenced student Yulia Siutsova and Karen Akopau, a member of the Movement For Freedom, to 15-day terms for participation in the January 10 protest in Minsk. Police detained three members of the youth wing of the Belarusian Popular Front, who came to the court in order to support Siutsova, and seven activists of the unregistered Youth Front organization, who displayed their solidarity with Artur Finkevich, an imprisoned leader of the organization, in central Minsk. AM

Source:

http://www.rferl.org/newsline/2008/01/3-cee/cee-170108.asp