Trial over political prisoner Andrei Kim starts today

• 1.04.2008, 8:35

The trial in the case of a young activist Andrei Kim is to start on April 1 at 2 p.m. in the court of Tsentralny district of Minsk.

The political prisoner Andrei Kim was detained during the rally of entrepreneurs on January 21 in Minsk. He was arrested for 10 days. After serving the term he was placed to the pre-trial detention center in Valadarski Street in Minsk.

Charges relating Article 364 of the Criminal Code of Belarus (violence or a threat to use violence against a policeman with an aim to prevent him from performing his lawful activities) are filed against him.

Andrei Kim has spent more than 2 months in the pre-trial detention center.