27 April 2007
Chernobyl march organizers to ask prosecutor for probe into detentions, seizure of sound amplifiers
Organizers of Thursday's Charnobylski Shlyakh are set to appeal to a prosecutor's office to probe the legality of the seizure of their sound amplifying equipment and the detention of people during the opposition demonstration.
"We were not able to normally organize and control the march," Yury Zyankovich, a member of the Belarusian Popular Front, told BelaPAN. "For my own part, I intend to file a complaint about my detention shortly after the demonstration. No charges were brought against me at the Tsentralny district police department where I was taken to together with other 15 detained people. This means that the detention was unlawful," he said.
The opposition activist said that the organizers also would ask the prosecutor's office to probe alleged attempts by police to push demonstrators to walkways undergoing repairs as they were marching along Surhanova Street.
"The prosecutor's office should find out who and how violated rights of demonstrators. It is up to the prosecutor's office to decide whether it was the police, riot police or the Minsk City Executive Committee." Mr. Zyankovich said.
The organizers also intend to contest the Maskowski District Court's decision to uphold the city government's ban of Charnobylski Shlyakh participants marching along Independence Avenue to the National Library, the route originally planned by the organizers.
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