Pavel Sevyarynets locked for 15 days over Kurapaty streaming

The politician was detained on Friday when trying to talk to the workers who were installing a fence in the place of the dismantled crosses in Kurapaty. Sevyarynets was streaming everything on Facebook.  He tried appealing to their conscience (the workers were protected by people in plain clothes). He got detained. The politician was accused of ‘preventing the workers from doing their job’, “shouting”, “grabbing them by their arms’ and ‘not reacting to warnings’. He was also accused of disobedience to Col. Syarhei Udodau from Minsk District Department of the Interior. He ‘refused to get in the police car’. Pavel Sevyarynets has been jailed since April 5.

Sevyarynets pled not guilty in court and said that Col. Udodau’s words were a lie and that the colonel was simply trying to become a general. He also asked to replace the judge but his request was declined. The judge refused to conduct the trial in Belarusian.

Nina Bahinskaya, 72, was fined for 1275 roubles on Monday. She was detained in Kurapaty on Friday. The woman spent three days on hunger strike. Volha Mikalaichyk was fined for 892.5 roubles.

Maksim Vinyarksi will stand trial on April 9. The date of Mikalai Statkevich’s trial is unknown.