Yet more sentences meted out to protesters in Belarus

A court in Minsk has sentenced another 6 members of the protests in December against the rigged results of the presidential elections to serious terms of imprisonment.  As reported, a week earlier five received similar sentences.  All were demonstrating against elections denounced by all democratic countries.

On Thursday, 12 May, Four young men received three-year sentences: Vladimir Loban; Sergei Kazanov; Yevgeny Sekret and Vitaly Martsukevych, the latter in a harsh regime penal colony. Oleg Fedorkevych and Dmytry Doronin received three and a half year sentences.  They have the right to appeal to a higher court.