MINSK FREEDOM DAY OBSERVERS ON TRIAL...
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28 March 2001 y., Wednesday
Minsk's Central District Court on 26 March sentenced Dzmitry Chabatarenka to 10 days in jail for violating public order during the Freedom Day rally in Minsk. Lyudmila Hraznova, a deputy of the opposition Supreme Soviet, was fined 20 minimum wages (some $90) for the same offense. The court will try nine other people who were detained during the rally -- including opposition leader Vintsuk Vyachorka and human rights activist Ales Byalatski -- in the coming days. "All trials that take place today are political. In my opinion, this is understood by both judges and policemen who draw reports oriented toward appropriate articles [of the Code of Administrative Offences]... When the head of the Lukashenka administration or the interior minister supervises the dispersal of a demonstration, it is obvious that trials [of detained demonstrators] are political," Vyachorka told RFE/RL's Belarusian Service.
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