Labiedźka’s son gets 15 days in jail for “foul language”

March 29, BPN. A court in Minsk has sentenced the son of politician Anatol Labiedźka, advisor on constitutional reform and inter-parliamentary cooperation to opposition leader Śviatłana Cichanoŭskaja, to 15 days in jail.

“Sheer abomination. Fifteen days because at 8 p.m. [March 28] Arciom Labiedźka supposedly came to the building of the Kastryčnicki district police department [in Minsk] and used foul language, waving his arms and harassing police officers. ‘Judge’ Alena Žyvica didn’t even go to the deliberation room. Why deliberate, when you have no honor, professionalism, conscience and self-respect? And, of course, she rejected the request [to play] CCTV footage from his area, which calls out the lies,” Anatol Labiedźka said on Facebook.

He added that officers at the Akreścina detention facility refused to pass medication on to his son.

On March 28, Anatol Labiedźka commented on the son’s arrest by saying: “The most disgusting thing is when they start taking your loved ones hostage. My son did not leave Belarus because he wanted to live there. He was convinced that having me as a father is the only thing he can be accused of!”

The politician lives in Lithuania, where he has fled the threat of reprisals.