Document #1282781

RFE/RL – Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (Author)

Prominent Belarusian Rights Defender Detained, Charged With Hooliganism

By RFE/RL's Belarus Service
 
January 27, 2012
MINSK -- Police have arrested well-known Belarusian human rights activist Aleh Vouchak and charged him with hooliganism.
 
Vouchak was able to inform his friends and colleagues via his cell phone on January 27 that police were taking him to a pretrial detention center and that his trial is scheduled for January 30.
 
Vouchak said he was arrested right after he visited a post office in Minsk from where he mailed a copy of the independent newspaper "Narodnaya volya" (People's Will) to Ivan Kruk, a colleague in the western city of Astravets.
 
No further details are available.
 
Vouchak is a former investigator at the Minsk Prosecutor-General's Office. Since 1990 he has been involved in human rights activities.

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ecoi.net description:
Minsk: Prominent human rights activist Aleh Vouchak arrested and charged with hooliganism
Country:
Belarus
Source:
RFE/RL – Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (Author)
Original link:
http://www.rferl.org/content/belarusian_rights_activist_charged_with_hooliganism/24465413.html
Document type:
Media Report
Language:
English
Published:
27 January 2012
Document ID:
1282781 (former ID 209449)

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