For "Long Live Belarus" – 4 million fine

• 10.09.2012, 13:10

Paulouski sisters was fined for writing this phrase on the bulletin board in the Day of Belarusian Military Glory.

Alena and Lyudmila Paulouskaya were detained during the afternoon of September 8, when the girls made an inscription "Long Live Belarus" on the noticeboard in honor of the Belarusian Military Glory at the corner of the Komsomolskaya and Revolutsionnaya Streets in Minsk, reports Human Rights Center "Viasna".

The girls were taken to the central police department, and then they were taken to the prison in Akrestsin Street. They were accused of disobeying the police and sentenced to fines for two million rubles each.