Ukrainian court rejects Belarusian protester’s appeal against deportation

February 28, BPN. Former Belarusian political prisoner Ivan Krasoŭski lost a court case in Ukraine to overturn interior officers’ decision to deport him.

The court decided that he should either return to his homeland or travel to a third country, he said on Instagram on February 28.

Krasoŭski was briefly detained in Kyiv on October 17 and issued the deportation order.

He had reportedly applied for refugee status in Ukraine back in 2021.

Krasoŭski is an anarchist activist. In 2020 he was arrested in Minsk during a protest. Then, according to human rights activists, he was severely beaten. He had to navigate in a wheelchair during treatment.

In September 2020 Krasoŭski was arrested again and charged with rioting and later sentenced over protests to three years of restricted freedom at an open-type correctional facility.

He fled Belarus shortly after the trial.