BELARUS NEWS AND ANALYSIS

DATE:

24/07/2007

Belarusian Police Arrest Two Opposition Youth Leaders

Police arrested Pavel Sevyarynets and Alyaksey Shein, leaders of the opposition youth movement, in Minsk on July 23, Belapan reported. Shein told the agency in a telephone call from a district police office that the two men were apprehended by plainclothes police who said the youths were suspected of being involved in an apartment robbery. Sevyarynets and Shein were reportedly carrying some 150 flyers advertising the opposition's July 27 events marking the 17th anniversary of Belarus's State Sovereignty Declaration. RFE/RL's Belarus Service reported that the two leaders, along with a group of detained opposition youth activists, are to stand trial on July 24. JM

Source:

http://www.rferl.org/newsline/2007/07/3-cee/cee-240707.asp