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The Minsk Central District Court has sentenced two participants in an unauthorized pro-Ukraine rally held near the Russian Embassy in Minsk to administrative arrest, the human rights center Vyasna, which is not registered in Belarus, told Interfax.

 Dmitry Dashkevich, leader of the Young Front association , was
sentenced to 12 days of arrest, and activist Sergei Finkevich was
sentenced to ten days of arrest for resisting police (a crime enshrined
by Article 23.4 of the Code of Administrative Violations), the source
said.

The third activist, Yevgeny Tikhonov, who was detained near the
Russian Embassy on Sunday, is charged with petty hooliganism (a crime
enshrined by Articles 23.4 and 17.1 of the Code of Administrative
Violations). His case will be tried by the same court, the source said.

According to earlier reports, the Belarusian opposition planned to
hold an unauthorized protest near the Russian Embassy in Minsk to
protest the Russian policies on Ukraine on March 2. Twenty-one
protesters were detained and taken to a police station.

Several Belarusian journalists were detained before the protest. All
journalists and protesters, with the exception of Dashkevich, Finkevich,
and Tikhonov, were released after being identified.