Lawyer refused a visit to Pavel Sevyarynets in pretrial jail

Photo: Nasha Niva
Photo: Nasha Niva

Co-leader of the Belarusian Christian Democracy Pavel Sevyarynets is jailed in the Akreststina Street detention centre. His lawyer was not allowed to visit him on May 6.

The lawyer had been waiting for 6 hours but it was all in vain, the politician’s mother Tatstsyana Sevyarynets told the BCD press service.

 

Pavel Sevyarynets was detained after an unauthorized action in the centre of Minsk on May 1. He was sentenced to 15 days of administrative arrest on May 2.