Court orders to collect 3,000 from applicants for holding European March
- 22.05.2008, 17:01
Applicants for holding the European March are fined again. Now the fine is 2,000 dollars. The decision about that has been taken by the judge of Savetski district of Minsk Maryna Fyodarava. Thus, the total amount of fines collected from organizers of the European march makes 3,000 dollars.
As informed by the leader of the United Civil party Anatol Lyabedzka, on May 20 he received a copy of the decree of the court of May 7. He was informed that organizers of the rally are to pay fines, including state duty. The sum is 4.5 million BRB.
As is turned out, Judge Maryna Fyodarava saw into 5 claims to oppositional leaders. They have been filed by housing and maintenance departments of Tsentralny, Pershamajski, Partyzanski, Savetski and Leninski districts of Minsk. The complainants stated that after the organizers changes the route of the demonstration on October 14 last year, damage to houses and adjacent territories was caused.
“The judge tried the case in a most comfortable homelike atmosphere,” Anatol Lyabedzka said in an interview to the UCP press-service. “The court decided it is superfluous to inform defendants about the sitting of the court. I haven’t been served summons at least. Complainants from housing and maintenance departments were absent either. It is much more comfortable for the so-called judges this way. They are spares of listening of all kind of nonsense in public, but eventually this nonsense is written down in a court decision”.
For instance, a building No.22 in Independence Avenue, houses in Talbukhin St., Valhahradskaya, Merzhynskaga, Kyadyshka and Charnysheuski St. are called damaged, “as well as houses in dozens of streets in the capital where no foot of participants of the European March trod or could have trodden in principle. However, judge Fyodarava considers all this nonsense and adopts a decision to collect 4.5 mln Brb from applicants of the rally. Judges have degraded the law lower than norms of criminal world”.
As we have informed, on April 23 judge of the Soviet district Syarhei Barazna sustained a claim of the state-run road maintenance firm “Gorremavodor” of Minsk city executive committee against organizers of the European March. Oppositionists were required to pay 2,135,974 Brb (about 1,000 USD) for “damage inflicted”. According to the enterprise, organizers changed the route of the rally, and that caused additional expenses for cleaning and garbage disposal”.
The court sentenced the European March organisers - Viktar Ivashkevich, Zmitser Khvedaruk, Yauhen Afnahel, Vintsuk Vyachorka, and Anatol Lyabedzka, to pay the fines.