25 July 2003
Three residents in Brest region face prison sentence for repelling police officers
Law-enforcement agencies in the Brest region launched criminal proceedings against three men suspected of violent resistance to police officers. An unemployed 31-year-old resident of Zhabinka is suspected of inflicting a head injury to a police sergeant, who attempted to arrest him for drinking liquor in a public place (near a boarding school in
Brest).
In a separate incident, a 19-year-old vocational school student and a 21-year-old student at the Vitebsk Veterinary Academy in Lyakhovichi hit a police officer with a bottle, while he was trying to arrest them for a minor civil offense. The men face charges under Article 363 of the Criminal Code, which carries a maximum prison term of five years.
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