UCP leader to be released today
United Civil Party leader Anatol Lyabedzka today completed his 15-day arrest in a Minsk jail.
Lyabedzka was detained together with activists of the United Civil Party near Kamarouski Market at a picket of solidarity with political prisoners on March 16. The opposition politician was returned guilty of violating the mass actions law and of ‘petty hooliganism’. He spent the local election day and the Freedom Day in jail.
Anatol Lyabedzka will be released at 10.30 a.m., BelaPAN reports.
Minsk trials: 5 people jailed, 2 – fined (photo)
Photo: ucpb.org
