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Opposition activist Uladzimir Yaromenak released on completion of three-month jail term

 

Young opposition activist Uladzimir Yaromenak was released from a facility in Baranavichy, Brest region, on Tuesday morning upon completion of a three-month jail term.

The 23-year-old activist of Malady Front left the jail at 8:15 a.m. and was met by his wife, Valyantsina, and fellow members of the opposition youth organization. As Mrs. Yaromenak told BelaPAN, her husband feels well.

Mr. Yaromenak was sentenced to jail by a judge of the Pershamayski District Court on August 20, 2013, for allegedly failing to comply with requirements of "preventive police supervision."

In November, the Minsk City Court upheld the sentence.

Mr. Yaromenak was placed in a detention center on December 11 and moved to the jail in Baranavichy soon after that.

In May 2011, Mr. Yaromenak was sentenced to three years in prison in connection with a post-election protest staged in Minsk’s Independence Square on December 19, 2010.

He was granted a presidential pardon on August 11, 2011, and released three days later.

Since then, Mr. Yaromenak has repeatedly been arrested and jailed under the Civil Offenses Code.

A district judge in Minsk placed him under preventive police supervision in March 2012.

On July 16, 2013, a police officer notified Mr. Yaromenak that criminal proceedings had been instituted against him the previous month for failure to stay at home between 8 p.m. and 6 a.m.