Journalist Alexander Burakou Jr. also sentenced to 10 days in jail

He knew that the police were look­ing for him and did not leave the apart­ment for a few days. On Fri­day morn­ing, the police came to the apart­ment togeth­er with the land­lord and arrest­ed the jour­nal­ist.

The police drew up charges of par­tic­i­pa­tion in unau­tho­rized protests in sup­port of blog­ger Tsikhanous­ki that he had cov­ered. 

The tri­al began at 17:30 in the Lenin­s­ki dis­trict court of Mahil­iou. Accord­ing to Vias­na’s human rights activist Ali­ak­sei Kolchyn, noone was allowed to attend the tri­al: nei­ther human rights defend­ers, nor Alexan­der’s par­ents. In fact, it was a secret tri­al, as it was not even put on the offi­cial sched­ule.

As a result, judge Lan­cha­va of the Lenin­s­ki dis­trict court of Mahil­iou found Burak­ou guilty under Art. 23.34 of the Admin­is­tra­tive Code, of alleged par­tic­i­pa­tion in a ral­ly on May 6, and sen­tenced him to 10 days of admin­is­tra­tive deten­tion, — spring96.org reports.