Mikalai Statkevich gets 10 more days of arrest

Opposition politician Mikalai Statkevich serving a 5-day arrest has been sentenced to 10 more days of imprisonment, his wife Maryna Adamovich wrote on Facebook. “This is the strictest liberalization in action,” she stated. Judge Tatstsyana Matyl has punished Statkevich for a picket ‘dated for’… his release on October 7, Maryna Adamovich said.

Mikalai Statkevich was detained in Minsk on October 30, Euroradio reported. He was sentenced to 5 days of arrest for the unauthorized street action organized in Minsk on September 8.