Participant of Case of 14 Artsyom Dubski arrested again

• 13.02.2009, 14:20

Activist of the “Young Front” Artsyom Dubski, convicted in the Case of 14, was got off the train in Homel.

As the Charter’97 press center from press secretary of the “Young Front” Tatsyana Shaputska, youth activist Artsyom Dubski was got off the train in Homel by militia officers and guarded in unknown direction.

Participant of the Case of 14 as going from Ukraine to Minsk for participation in banned of the Belarusian authorities street action “Day of Love”, the “Young Front” organizes in the Belarusian capital on February 14. Location of Dubski is unknown.

It should be noticed that Artsyom Dubski has been living in Ukraine because a criminal case against him was instigated in Belarus. The second criminal case under article 415 of the Criminal Code of Belarus was instigated against Dubski in October 2008 for violation of procedure of serving punishment, he was sentenced to for participation in a protest of entrepreneurs.

It should be reminded that the Case of 14 is a criminal case under article of 342 of the Criminal Code of Belarus, instigated against participants of the peaceful protest rally of entrepreneurs, held in Minsk on January 10, 2008.

For participation in this rally the Tsentralny district court of Minsk sentenced youth activist Andrei Kim to 1.5 years in penal colony (he was released in August 2008). The rest participants of the Case of 14 – Artsyom Dubski, Alyaksei Bondar, Mikhail Kryvau, Mikhail Pashkevich, Alyaksandr Straltsou, Alyaksandr Charnyshou, Tatsyana Tsishkevich, Mikhail Subach, and Paval Vinahradau were sentenced to 2 years of restraint of liberty without sending them to special penal facilities. Minor Maksim Dashuk got 1.5 years of restraint of liberty.

They are under house arrest in fact, under strict supervision, they may be thrown into prison for the smallest violation.