Youngsters to stand trial over white-red-white flag at rock concert

Photo: Radio Svaboda
Photo: Radio Svaboda

Ivan Lisavets and Dzmitry Navumenka who on August 5 unfolded a white-red-white flag at the Krambambula concert during the Khmelnov beer festival in Minsk will stand trial, friends of the detainees told human rights defender Valiancin Stefanovich.

Riot police officers detained the youngsters during the concert. They spend the night at a pretrial detention center.

The trial will take place on August 7 at Minsk's Zavodski District Court, reports Radio Svaboda.