Perspektyva's Shumnchanka gets Br6.3mln fine for Freedom Day
Leader of the entrepreneurs’ association Perspectiva Anatol Shumchanka has been fined for 30 base amounts (Br6.3 million) for participating in the unauthorized meeting on Freedom Day (March 25). The leader of entrepreneurs got to know about it from a letter set by Minsk Soviet District Court.
The authorities did not give him any chance to attend the hearing, Shumchanka wrote on Facebook. He received a subpoena on May 25 and the trial was conducted on May 24. The court’s decision was delivered to him by a courier.
Judge Volha Dubanevich pronounced the decision. Shumchanka is planning to appeal it.
The Freedom Day action conducted on March 25 was allowed by Minsk authorities. Minsk City Executive Committee allowed walking from the cinema house Kastrychnik to Bangalore Square and to organize a meeting in the Park of People’s Friendship. However, the opposition laid flowers to the monument to Yanka Kupala and conducted a meeting there. Then the people walked towards the metro station Academy of Sciences. Politicians and civil activists have been standing trials for it for two months.
