“Stop Petrol” participants fined for half a ton of petrol

14.20 Alyaksandr Redzkin has been fined for 525 thousand rubles.

13.10 The trials will continue after a break. All the defendants are expected to be released in Akrestsina (their personal belongings are there) and not in the court room today.

12.40 Alesya Makas has been fined for 525 thousand rubles.

12.30 It has become known that four more trials will take place in Minsk Central Court. Judge Hadanovich will try Alesya Makas and I.V. Prybylski. Judge Yesman will consider Pavel Hrudzilovich and Alyaksandr Redzkin’s cases.

12.25 Judge Yasinovich has fined Dzmitry Kavalhin for 700 thousand rubles.

12.15 Witness from the police born in 1981 has arrived. He says that they headed for “the place of the unauthorized picket and detained a group of young people who were taking part in it”. The policeman says that the detained had A4 sheets of paper with an image of a filling station and were shouting “shame!”.

 

12.08 Alyaksandr Redzkin is waiting for the trial in court. Two people in plain clothes are standing guard over him. Redzkin says that he was detained after colonel Yauseyeu had pointed at him. He was simply watching the action together with his wife.

 

The detained spent the night in the dentition centre in Akrestsina Street.

 

11.55 A break has been announced in court – the policeman who detained people is expected to arrive.

11.45 Kavalhin is accused of picketing with a sheet of paper that contained the symbol of “Stop petrol”. He says that he signed the report only to be allowed to talk to his relatives.

 

11.40 Dzmitry Kavalhin, born in 1987, who was shouting “shame” when policemen were detaining people, has been delivered to court. He was detained for it.


According to the Euroradio reporter, it had been planned to conduct all the hearings without the press and relatives. However, Radio Liberty reporter Aleh Hrudzilovich strongly objected to it. The court had to allocate a room for the trial of participants of “Stop Petrol”.

 

11.25 The trials have not begun yet. According to Euroradio reporter Vital Ruhain, lists with the names of the detained and office numbers appeared in court. However, they simply disappeared a bit later.

Journalists and action participants’ relatives do not know if the planned hearings will take place.

 

11.05 The name of one more detained person has become known. According to Radio Liberty, it is Alyaksandr Redzkin. His wife Yauheniya has informed in court that they were watching the “Stop Petrol” action near the bridge across the Svislatch. They saw policemen to detain a girl. Then the commanding officer ordered to detain Alyaksandr too.

 

10.50 According to Radio Liberty, five participants of the action have been delivered to court. There is a girl among them.

 

9.45 Participants of the drivers’ protest action are standing trial in Minsk Central District Court. One of the detained, Pavel Hruzdzilovich, has informed about it by SMS. He has not specified how many detained will be there, informs Radio Liberty.

Pavel Hruzdzilovich was detained on June 7. He spent the night in the detention centre in Akrestsina Street.

It is also known that a girl with a poster “Stop Petrol” and UCP activist Zmitser Kavalhin were also detained at the action yesterday.