BELARUS NEWS AND ANALYSIS
DATE:
15/11/2006
Belarusian Oppositionist Released From Prison
Former lawmaker Syarhey Skrabets was released from a correctional facility on November 15, RFE/RL's Belarus Service reported. Skrabets was arrested in May 2005, and the the Supreme Court sentenced him in February 2006 to 2 1/2 years in prison, finding him guilty of defrauding a bank in a case that was widely believed to be politically motivated. Skrabets went on hunger strike on October 20, in solidarity with hunger-striking Alyaksandr Kazulin, a former opposition presidential candidate who is serving 5 1/2 years in the same facility from which Skrabets was released. JM
Source:
http://www.rferl.org/newsline/2006/11/3-cee/cee-151106.asp
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