On 22 June representatives of oppositional political parties gathered in Freedom Square in Vitsiebsk to protest against the verdict to two leaders of the Belarusian opposition Paviel Sieviaryniets and Mikola Statkievich. 40 minutes after it started the action participants were dispersed by the police and riot squad.
About two dozens activists of the oppositional parties went out to Freedom Square. Almost each had portraits of Mikola Statkievich and Paviel Sieviaryniets attached to their chests. By the way, Paval Sieviaryniets and his mother Tatsiana Sieviaryniets also came to the square to meet the compatriots.
40 minutes after the action started three cars full of police and several riot squad officers came. The action participants managed to hold back the police which ordered everyone to leave the place. The party members started leaving the Freedom Square only when the chair of the Young Front Ianis Chuchman was forced inside the police car.
The BPF Party member Khrystafor Zhaliapau was detained when he had already left the square and was walking along Lenin Street. He was grabbed by the hands and forced into the car. At the police station Mr. Zhaliapau had to give up his mobile phone so that he could not say what was happening to him there.
At half past eight in the evening Ianis Chuchman and Khrystafor Zhaliapau were released. The police made reports for distributing fly sheets without imprint, the contents of which cause damage to the state regime and public order.
Now the reports compiled against Ianis Chuchman and Khrystafor Zhaliapau will be reviewed by the Borough Administrative Committee, reports Radio Liberty.
