UCP leader Anatol Lyabedzka to stand trial over Charlie Hebdo
Anatol Lyabedzka is charged with taking part in the in support of the murdered French journalists, which was not authorized.
“I have just left the police. They said that I would have to stand trial. There is nothing in the case papers – only printouts from social networks and information websites. Two employees of the Embassy gave evidence. I asked why the police had not stopped me if I had been doing something illegal. They claimed to be young and inexperienced. They did not know what to do,” Anatol Lyabedzka told Euroradio.
The action of solidarity was held in Minsk on January 11. Four people including Anatol Lyabedzka came to the French Embassy. They were holding sheets of paper with the inscription ‘JE SUIS CHARLIE’. They left a few minutes later.
Terrorists killed staff members of the satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo in Paris at the beginning of January. Solidarity actions were held in many countries and the March of Unity attracted millions of people in Paris.
Anatol Lyabedzka explains the late reaction to the picket by the delicacy of the case. “It is ambiguous. On the one hand, the authorities do not want 40 or 400 people to start coming to such actions instead of 4. On the other hand, they want to punish us somehow. This is why everything is so slow,” Anatol Lyabedzka thinks.
Photo: Novy Chas
