30 days in Belgian jail
Our man in Belgium, Zmicier Pimenau, the one that was arrested during a recent Belarusian protest in Brussels, has already spent one month behind bars in a Belgian jail, and police still refuses to inform the public about why they arrested him, why they are keeping him in custody, and what are the charges. This is all very fishy. I don’t even know what to think now about Belgian law enforcement.
By the way, according to some sources, Zmicier Pimenau is the man who was known in Belarus as Miron, a legendary anti-Lukashenka activist. Almost every month you could read about him in opposition media. It would be something like this:
“An unidentified person who calls himself Miron hangs Belarusian national white-red-white flags (that are prohibited by Lukashenka regime) at the highest and least accessible points such as factory chimneys in his native town of Losna, Vitebsk region. He did it again! The local police launched a manhunt, but with no avail. Does he really exists, this intangible Miron?”
Of course, I can’t say for sure whether Pimenau and legendary Miron are the same person, but I heard this from a trustworthy source. And now it is so bizarre that Belgian police is keeping him in jail for one month already. Something just doesn’t add up.
December 9th, 2005 at 5:51 pm
That does sound weird… Belgium is NOT Belarus, they cannot arrest nor detain someone without telling him why. Also there is a limit as on how long you can detain someone… don’t know for how long but its dam sure not a month. That’s rather interesting that this man might be a legendary activist. Which is why he may be in detention for so long… Perhaps spilling this story to the Belgian media would shake loose some information? Publicity can’t hurt in these kinds of cases anyway.
December 13th, 2005 at 1:04 pm
Hello, this is agirlnamedluna from LJ - came over to see
I’m rather baffled that this activist has been held back for a month. Usually this is not the case in Belgium, he can very well intend a special procedure to get freed based on unreasonably long detention before being inculpated with anything. On top of that, normally a judge must decide regularly whether he has to stay in jail or not, based on proof - this does not take a month to lead him before the instruction judge.
Granted, I haven’t been reading papers much this month but there’s hardly anything about it in the news.
December 14th, 2005 at 1:42 pm
[…] It seems no one cares about that guy, so I feel obliged to write about his case again, to give him just a little bit more exposure, though I don’t have such a big audience (probably, about 100-200 readers). The latest news is that Zmicier Pimenau is still in jail and he began another hunger strike to protest against (1) maltreatment by Belgian police; (2) the fact that he is not being charged with anything and kept behind bars without any explanation. […]