Minsk courts already sentenced 601 detained opposition activists

Minsk courts have already made administrative sentences for 601 detained: 580 are under administrative arrest, all the rest have been fined.  The head of the press-center of the Ministry of Internal Affairs Minsk Administration Aliaksandr Lastouski has informed that by phone to  RIA Novosti.  According to him, opposition activists are serving administrative arrests up to 15 days in different penitentiary establishnments of the region. 

Lastouski added that "it is not clear yet whether all of them will be released after serving administrative sentences". Some of them can become subjects of the criminal case started upon the article "mass disturbance".