BNF collects donations for Yana Palyakova’s mother

The BNF party has started colleting donations for the mother of Yana Playkova, a human rights activist who died tragically. The deputy head of the party Victar Ivashkevich announced it at a party meeting that started with a one-minute silence in memory of Palyakova in Minsk, reports the website pbnf.org. Let us remind you that Yana Palyakova committed suicide in her Salihorsk flat on the night of March 7. Salihorsk District Court returned her guilty of “a deliberately give false evidence” given against a policemen and sentenced her to two years of imprisonment in a labour camp on March 3. She also had to pay the policeman a compensation for moral damage – 1 million roubles. Yana Palyakova claimed that she was innocent and said that the policemen had beaten her.

The death of Yana Palyalkova aroused public response. Salihorsk District Office of the Public Prosecutor is investigating the suicide.