Politician Pavel Sevyarynets at liberty


On March 8, Pavel Sevyarynets, a co-chairman of the Belarusian Christian Democracy party and former political prisoner, was released from the temporary detention facility in Minsk.

The politicial was preventively detained before the picket of solidarity with political prisoners in Kastrychnitskaya Square in Minsk on February, 26. A few days later, Sevyarynets, who announced a campaign for Svyataslau Baranovich, was sentenced to 10-day arrest only for calls to take part in the event.

“Confinement conditions were bearable. In the scheme of things, locking a person up for a post on Facebook and calls for solidarity is lawlessness. For some reason, they had been keeping me in the pre-detention for three days before the trial without giving any explanations to to me or my family; then I was found guilty and got another ten days. The worst things happened on the Day of Soviet Militia [March, 4]. It was nothing but lawless actions: they [prison authorities] took matresses from prisoners, put a nitty man in our cell without any sanitizing, shouted at us, seized pens and paper… Apparently, they were celebrating Police Day to the full,” Sevyarynets told Belsat.

On February 26, the activists demanded release of political prisoners before the start of the European Games in Belarus. But some of them faced the deprivation of liberty themselves. Artsyom Charnyak and Volha Nikalaichyk were grabbed soon after the action of solidarity. Not everyone was able to join the picket: former political prisoner Pavel Sevyarynets, anarchists Nasta Huseva and Zmitser Paliyenka were preventively detained.

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