{"id":125489,"date":"2025-02-08T13:45:35","date_gmt":"2025-02-08T10:45:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pozirk.online\/en\/news\/125489\/"},"modified":"2026-03-10T12:05:06","modified_gmt":"2026-03-10T12:05:06","slug":"reprisals-two-belarusians-convicted-for-disrupting-russian-invasion-of-ukraine-in-2022","status":"publish","type":"articles","link":"https:\/\/pozirk.online\/en\/news\/125489\/","title":{"rendered":"Reprisals: two Belarusians convicted for disrupting Russian invasion of Ukraine in 2022"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Briefly: Oil refinery worker under arrest for links to Bie\u0142aruski Hajun <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Five tried for sharing opposition content<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Interior ministry brands 30 as \u201cextremists\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Authorities blacklist Polskie Radio dla Zagranicy<\/em> social media<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

February 8, Pozirk.<\/em> <\/strong>New cases of politically-motivated persecution documented in Belarus on February 7 included a guilty verdict for Pavie\u0142 Vabi\u0161\u010devi\u010d and Andrej Zinienka in Minsk.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Authorities persecuted them for an attempt to disrupt the movement of Russian military equipment via Belarus in early 2022 as Russia launched a full-scale war against Ukraine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Vabi\u0161\u010devi\u010d was given 23 years in prison and Zinienka, 12 years, on charges of terrorism and high treason, the Viasna Human Rights Center reported.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In another development, businessman Ihar \u0160kieta\u016d went on trial in H\u0142ybokaje, Viciebsk region, on protest-related charges, Viasna reported.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Online activities<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Police in Mazyr, Homiel region, arrested Maksim Nikicienka, an oil refinery employee, for allegedly sharing information with the Bie\u0142aruski Hajun project that monitored Russian military activities in Belarus, Digital Intelligence Team<\/em> reported. The arrest took place following earlier reports of the Telegram chat’s data breach. Yesterday, Bie\u0142aruski Hajun said it was shutting down after the data leak.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Andrej Sa\u0142odkin, Rus\u0142an Ro\u016dda, journalist Hieorhij Kar\u017eanie\u016dski, railway worker D\u017amitryj Tymaniuk and former political prisoner Julija Ka\u015bciu\u010denka were tried for allegedly sharing opposition content, Viasna’s regional branches and Telegram channels monitoring politically-motivated trials said. The sentences in all cases remain unknown.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The information ministry reported extremist content designations for ukr.net<\/em>, Narodny Deputat<\/em> project’s YouTube channel, the Telegram channel by the Belarus service of Polskie Radio dla Zagranicy<\/em> as well as alena.davidovich<\/em>, acameron375<\/em>, belarus_en_france<\/em>, belarusses2savoies<\/em>, alice_syal<\/em>, bypolskieradio<\/em>, Pra Viciebsk <\/em>and Muziej Volnaj Bie\u0142arusi<\/em> on Instagram.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Other cases<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The interior ministry said it added 30 people to the list of persons \u201cinvolved in extremist activity.\u201d  All of them were sentenced on criminal charges typically used for political persecution in Belarus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Opposition activist Maryja Kale\u015bnikava was transferred from the penal colony\u2019s internal prison to barracks in late December, her associates said on Telegram.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As of February 8, human rights defenders identified at least 1,229 political prisoners but the real number is considerably higher because many cases go undocumented.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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