Opposition activist Pavel Sevyarynets jailed for 15 days

Pavel Sevyarynets. Photo: Reuters
Pavel Sevyarynets. Photo: Reuters

Pavel Sevyarynets has been jailed for 15 days, his colleague from the organizing committee of the Belarusian Christian Democracy Party Dzyanis Sadouski reported on Facebook. The opposition politician has been punished for participation in an unauthorized action held in Minsk on September 8. The action as organized by Mikalai Statkevich. A few hundred people took part in the protest in Kastrycnickaja Square against the war games with Russia.

Uladzimir Nyaklyayeu and Mikalai Statkevich were punished for taking part in the September 8 protest earlier.