Reaching out Lukashenka: Picketer with portrait of president taken to mental asylum
In pursuit of justice a man got a heart attack, was arrested and taken to a mental asylum.
Mikhail Miakhedka, a resident of Minsk, has been seeking damages for a demolished house. He even addressed to President Aliaksandr Lukashenka, Belsat TV program It’s My Right reports.
When the house Mikhail dwelled in was marked for demolition the authorities offered compensation or accomodation in exchange. Although the man opted for compensation, he received 1.5 rooms in an apartment block. Demanding justice Mr Miakhedka went to the law and applied to the authorities but in vain.
“I resorted to the presidential administration. I asked our president for help. The administration turned me down, they put me in prison. [in predetention centre] in Akrestsina street. I wanted courty to defend my right to appeal to the president, but our judicial system is …callous, so to say,” Mikhail said.
He is sure that this very situation caused a heart attack. Yet another arrest resulted in bringing Mikhail to a mental asylum.
“At first aidmen refused to take me because there were no grounds for it. But policemen fabricated a protocol according to which I was laying on the floor, hitting doors and demanding to see the president,” he said.
Mr Miakhedka is set to continue his fight, but another attempt to picket with a portrait of Lukashenka in his hands met with failure.
