Member of the Presidium of the Belarusian Coordination Council (CS) of the opposition Maxim sign was presented with a final charge. This was announced by his lawyer Dmitry Laevsky, writes “Interfax – West”.
The charge was presented on May 5th. “On the incriminated items, it does not differ from that accusation, which is appealed to us in March, there are some differences in the text,” said Laevsky.
On May 7, the signs of the sign reported on the end of the preliminary investigation. “This means that the investigation body considers all the investigative actions fulfilled and intends to convey the case to the prosecutor to send to court,” Laevsky explained.
In February, it became known that Maxim Sign was accused of creating an extremist grouping and plot to capture power. Three criminal cases opened against him, before that he was accused of calls to actions threatening national security.
Sign was detained in September 2020. In protest against presented charges, he kept the hunger strike for more than a week. Together with him in the case of calls to the seizure of power, a member of the COP opposition Maria Kolesnikova and her lawyer Ilya Saley are held.
Mass protests in Belarus began after the presidential elections on August 9, on which, according to official data, Alexander Lukashenko defeated for the sixth term. The first shares rigidly accelerated. It is known about the few dead protesters. A number of opposition politicians and activists were arrested or fled from the country. Lukashenko claimed that foreign states are standing behind the protests.
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