Minsk, August 31 (Interfax) - Belarusian Untied Civil Party activist Anatoly Pavlov's prosecution dealing with the December 19, 2010 events in Minsk has been dropped, the United Civil Party said in a report on its website.
"As all the others, I have received two letters. The decision on closing the case is dated August 23 and travel permission August 24. It looks like everything was done in one package," Pavlov said.
"It was clear from the very start that the case was just invented. I did not do anything against the law. Therefore, it was sad when I was locked up. It is especially nasty when you understand that you did not do anything wrong," he said.
"But the current situation urges the authorities to do something, and so they are doing it. At least they are dropping cases," he said.
It was reported earlier that Belarusian authorities dropped prosecution of United Civil Party leader Anatoly Lebedko, journalist Natalya Radina, who asked for political asylum in Lithuania, former presidential candidate and deputy head of the Belarusian Popular Front party Grigory Kostusev, opposition activists Alexander Orestovich and Oleg Korban, and head of presidential candidate Andrei Sannikov’s campaign staff Vladimir Kobets.
President Alexander Lukashenko had earlier pardoned nine people who had been convicted for involvement in the December 19 events.
