The convicts chanted in the courtroom: “We believe! We can! We will win!
An illegal trial of activists of the civil campaign European Belarus, one of the leaders of the opposition
Pavel Seviarynets and activist
The trial was closed, but relatives were allowed into the courtroom at the last moment.
Judge
She sentenced political prisoners to long terms in colonies:
- Pavel Seviarynets, co-chairman of the organizing committee of the Belarusian Christian Democracy Party, was sentenced to 7 years in a maximum-security penal colony;
- Coordinator of the campaign European Belarus
Yauhen Afnahel was sentenced to 7 years in a maximum-security penal colony;
The trial against
Yauhen Afnahel, Andrei Voynich, Pavel Yukhnevich, Maksim Viniarski, telegram channel administrator
Iryna Schastnaya and blogger
Judge
About 40 people have come to support political prisoners in court.
According to human rights activists, all those who came to support the defendants were asked to leave the courthouse.
Twenty minutes before the beginning of the trial - it started at 10.30 - police officers drove all those who came to support the political prisoners out of the courthouse.
PHOTO: Radio Svaboda
Only Pavel Seviarynets mother and wife are inside the building - they want to get an appointment with the head of the court.