Pervomaisky district court judge has fined a member of the CCP BPF based on police reports, where it was written that night March 25 Sergei Kovalenko was "drunk", and even "obscene language" and "waving his arms."
Activist of any of these charges is not recognized. The trial of Sergei Kovalenko March 26 filed Judge Natalia Korablina, and after a break for three days - March 29 - an activist judge to appoint another judge Valentina Kismyaroshkina. Why it happened, the audience did not explain.
Everything else was the same: in the court were more than two dozen police officers in uniform and in civilian clothes. Part of the staff in plain clothes before the Court took place in the hall, while the "men in uniform" to convince willing to enter that courtroom closed. By the way, a complaint against police misconduct, which on March 26, "commanded" in court - instead of the Secretary was ordered to stand up, making rude remarks to those present and so on - to go to the Interior Ministry Vitsebsk activist Peter Smith. A similar complaint was lodged and Sergei Kovalenko, asking it to attach to the case as evidence of no confidence to the court, which in fact was a subordinate police officers.
Two police officers were in court witnesses - are employees patrol Alexei Novikov and Alexander Davidovsky. They said that stopped Sergei Kovalenko to the road for no flicker. Although the traffic police then made him record for crossing the road in the wrong place. According to police, the activist resented the fact that he was detained in the police patrol, not the traffic police. And he did it "with foul language" and "waving". Besides, Kovalenko refused to go with them to the police, and he was warned that these actions - "disobedience to the police." After that, he has already agreed to get in the car. But during an argument police smelled alcohol, mentioned that he had a "staggering" and Sergei Kovalenko was taken for a medical examination.
Further evidenced by the ongoing physician, psychiatrist, the psychiatrist Alexander Lebedev. He noted that the activist refused to undergo Alcotest. But only confirmed to police about the smell of alcohol, all other outward signs he described as normal behavior: there was not a "staggering" or violent behavior ...
Sergei Kovalenko argued that the charge against him is unfair: "On the road behind me was a man in civilian clothes. And when a police car pulled up, he jumped out from behind me and whispered something in the ear of a policeman. Police department in May Day to me up a report on the false charge of an administrative offense (Article 17.1 of the Administrative Code.) When I was on a charge of disorderly conduct in the detention center were brought to me were wrongly applied special means (handcuffs). in temporary detention, I also was ill, offends human dignity: kept in solitary confinement, in which no individual beds and even some furniture, bedding was not given, had to sleep on the floor in the toilet cistern was missing, as well as sinks in the chamber and the tank with drinking water, toilet paper and soap, too not given. March 26, when I was brought to the detention center of the court, the judge ordered to decorate any documents, and the police department Pervomaisky district, and back to the court I was taken in a paddy wagon - the vehicle for the transport of people, for which under the Criminal Procedure Code used measure of punishment - imprisonment, which violated my right to the presumption of innocence. "
The activist said that the police carried out the pressure on him for his political views, which is why the arrest took place on Freedom Day. Perhaps, the police decided to "get ahead" in the possibility of another white-red-white flag hanging which is known activist. Sergei Kovalenko going to challenge the court order, issued in his opinion, based on trumped-up protocol.
Viasna Human Rights Center
