"Vitsebsk Courier" fined for more than 1 million roubles

Lyozna district court has considered one of the founders of the newspaper "Vitsebsk Courier" Viktar Ramniou guilty in illegal dissemination thereof. He has been sentenced to pay the fine of 1 million 225 thousand roubles (35 base fees). The print run of the newspaper has been confiscated. As Euroradio informed earlier, the activists of the "Our House" campaign had conducted a performance - they had come to the court wearing paper dresses made of the newspaper "Vitsebsk Courier". As it was informed to the European Radio for Belarus by the "Our House" leader Volha Karach, it was not the only protest action against the absurdity of the trial:

Karach: "Viktar Ramniou and part of the people demonstratively left the trial hall during announcement of the sentence, as it was actually well-understood".