Nexta case goes to court

December 30, BPN. The Prosecutor General’s Office says it has referred the case against the Nexta media project founder, Ściapan Puciła, and members of his team Jan Rudzik and Raman Pratasievič to court.

They are accused of creating an extremist group, organizing mass riots, calling for seizure of power and other crimes that can be punished with long prison sentences.

Citing state interests, the prosecutors also demanded that the accused should pay 30 million rubels (some $11 million) for property damage.

They said that Pratasievič remains under house arrest in Belarus, and that EU-based Puciła and Rudzik would be tried in absentia.