Syarhei Pyatrukhin and Kanstantsin Astapuk will appear before court on October, 1. The protesters are being held in the detention centre in Brest.
Blogger Pyatrukhin who was livestreaming the protest rally was detained near Brest city executive committee by the riot police.
Being in the police station, Kanstantsin Astapuk got sick. He was convoyed to hospital, but after medical treatment the policemen placed him under arrest.
Kanstantsin Astapuk
“Pyatrukhin and Astapuk will be tried, we filed an appeal asking for more information about the trials. The detention centre officers also refused to accept a food parcel for Pyatrukhin, and we have written a complaint,” human rights activist Raman Kislyak told Belsat.
On September 30, about 100 persons took part in a rally protesting against the construction of iPower battery plant in Brest. The two men’s wearing the T-shirts with emblems of the protest might have become the reason for the detention.
The Chinese company is building the battery plant which will produce lead-acid batteries at a rapid pace. Its work may cause severe damage to human health due to lead emissions within a radius of 30 kilometers. Lead dust from production may provoke many serious diseases, including cancer.
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