The trial of Uladzimir Kondrus, the last defendant in Ploshcha-2010 case, will be resumed on December 26 in Maskouski district in Minsk, Belarusian human rights defenders say.
According to his mother, now Kondrus is in a prison hospital. He is known to have been subjected to a complex psychological and psychiatric examination, but its results have not yet been reported.
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The man was arrested on June 14 on charges of ‘participation in mass disorders’ on December 19, 2010 in Independence Square (‘Ploshcha’). In prison, Kondrus went on a hunger strike and was within an inch of death. During the trial in November, he attempted to cut his wrists in court.
In 2011, 49 people were sentenced in the case, including former presidential candidate Mikalai Statkevich who was the last political prisoner pardoned by president Alyaksandr Lukashenka and released on August 22, 2015. For nearly six years, the security services were not interested in Kondrus.
All major Belarusian human rights organizations issued a special statement demanding immediate release of the Square 2010 participant. They called the case against him a politically motivated one and called Kondrus political prisoner.
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