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Another post-election protester facing charge of violating police supervision rules

Pardoned post-election protester Uladzimir Yaromenak is facing a charge of failing to comply with the requirements of “preventive police supervision.”

A police officer informed the opposition activist at a police station on Tuesday that criminal proceedings had been instituted against him last month. Mr. Yaromenak refused to answer the policeman’s questions and was told to come back in company with his lawyer on July 18.

In May 2011, Mr. Yaromenak, a member of an opposition youth group called Malady Front, was sentenced to three years in prison in connection with a post-election protest staged in Minsk’s Independence Square on December 19, 2010.

He was granted a presidential pardon on August 11, 2011 and released three days later.

Since then, Mr. Yaromenak has repeatedly been arrested and jailed under the Civil Offenses Code.

A district judge in Minsk placed him under “preventive police supervision” in March 2012.

On July 13, another pardoned post-election protester, Vasil Parfyankow, was formally charged with failing to comply with the requirements of “preventive police supervision.” //BelaPAN