Two pro-Ukraine protesters arrested in Minsk

The Minsk Central District Court has sentenced two participants in an unauthorized pro-Ukraine rally held near the Russian Embassy in Minsk to administrative arrest, the human rights center Vyasna, which is not registered in Belarus, told Interfax.

Dmitry Dashkevich, leader of the Young Front association , was sentenced to 12 days of arrest, and activist Sergei Finkevich was sentenced to ten days of arrest for resisting police (a crime enshrined by Article 23.4 of the Code of Administrative Violations), the source said.

The third activist, Yevgeny Tikhonov, who was detained near the Russian Embassy on Sunday, is charged with petty hooliganism (a crime enshrined by Articles 23.4 and 17.1 of the Code of Administrative Violations). His case will be tried by the same court, the source said.

According to earlier reports, the Belarusian opposition planned to hold an unauthorized protest near the Russian Embassy in Minsk to protest the Russian policies on Ukraine on March 2. Twenty-one protesters were detained and taken to a police station.

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