{"id":111847,"date":"2024-10-30T16:00:33","date_gmt":"2024-10-30T13:00:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pozirk.online\/en\/news\/111847\/"},"modified":"2026-03-09T20:10:49","modified_gmt":"2026-03-09T20:10:49","slug":"supreme-court-upholds-prison-sentences-for-exiled-democratic-forum-organizers","status":"publish","type":"articles","link":"https:\/\/pozirk.online\/en\/news\/111847\/","title":{"rendered":"Supreme Court upholds prison sentences for exiled democratic forum organizers"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

October 30, Pozirk<\/em>.<\/strong> A Supreme Court panel has rejected appeals by Anatol Kota\u016d, Vadzim D\u017amitronak, Ja\u016dhien Vilski, Volha Kara\u010d and Vieranika Capka\u0142a, the Prosecutor General’s Office reported.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The guilty verdict issued by the Brest Regional Court in July without the defendants being present has entered into force.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The exiled activists were sentenced to 12 years in prison on charges of forming an extremist group and plotting to overthrow the government.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The prosecutors accused them of ties to the Forum of Democratic Forces, which was held in Warsaw in May 2022 at the initiative of former presidential hopeful Valer Capka\u0142a, former \u0141uka\u0161enka administration official Anatol Kota\u016d, political scientist D\u017amitryj Ba\u0142kuniec and other activists.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The second forum was held in Berlin in July of the same year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The organizers billed it as a public platform seeking ideas for Belarus\u2019 social, economic and political development.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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