{"id":23924,"date":"2020-09-24T15:16:07","date_gmt":"2020-09-24T14:16:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/unitelive.org\/?p=23924"},"modified":"2020-09-24T15:16:08","modified_gmt":"2020-09-24T14:16:08","slug":"verdict-at-lizavetas-trial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/?p=23924","title":{"rendered":"Verdict at Lizaveta\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s trial"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p>Following on from Lizaveta Merliak\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s story yesterday (September 23) Lizaveta contacted UNITElive immediately after the outcome of her court case was announced.<\/p>\n<p>\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>She writes:<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u015bThe outcome of today\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s trial (September 23) is that I am found guilty of taking part in an unauthorised mass event. The sentence is a fine, about 90 euros. It can be paid on my behalf by our solidarity fund.\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u015bHowever,\u00e2\u20ac\u0165 she continues, \u00e2\u20ac\u015bI am still waiting for the \u00e2\u20ac\u0098motivation\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 part of the decision. There were facts in the testimonies of the eyewitnesses (ie the police) that didn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t correspond to the reality of what happened.<\/p>\n<p>\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u015bThey claimed I was arrested by a special police squad aka OMON in the centre of Grodno in a crowd of protesters. But the reality is I was arrested in front of my house by OMON \u00e2\u20ac\u201c and it looked like a kidnapping.\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u015bOf course I brought this issue to the attention of the court. Now I want to see it with my own eyes that this issue is included in the case documents.\u00e2\u20ac\u0165\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><em>UNITElive<\/em> awaits to hear of further developments and send solidarity and comradeship to Lizaveta and all free and independent Belarus trade unionists in their struggle.<\/p>\n<p>\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>By Amanda Campbell @amanda_unite <\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u015bThey claimed I was arrested by a special police squad aka OMON in the centre of Grodno in a crowd of protesters. But the reality is I was arrested in front of my house by OMON \u00e2\u20ac\u201c and it looked like a kidnapping.\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":23903,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[1429,158,334,266],"wps_subtitle":"Latest news on the Belarus independent trade union international secretary, Lizaveta Merliak","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23924"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23924"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23924\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23932,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23924\/revisions\/23932"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/23903"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23924"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23924"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23924"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}