Hrodna Activists Succeed In Getting Case On "Internet Picket" Dismissed

• 30.05.2017, 10:57

The case against Volha and Siarhei Verameyenka was dismissed due to the absence of an offense.

May 30, in the Leninsky district court of Hrodna, judge Ruslan Huryn delivered a verdict on the case of activists Volha and Siarhei Verameyenka from Hrodna: "the case is closed due to the absence of an offense," Radio Svaboda reports. A police witness has previously called the case an "Internet picket".

Police rated the photos, on which Siarhei and Volha Verameyenka were holding the white-red-white flag and which were signed “There are people just like Vasil in Hrodna” and “Just Like Vasil!!!”as an "unauthorized picket".

Verameyenka doesn't deny that he took pictures with a white-red-white flag and published them on Facebook to show solidarity with Vasil Paliakou, who was serving 15 days in Hrodna prison for carrying a white-red-white flag. Verameyenka believes that "a photography can not be considered a picket."