{"id":136488,"date":"2025-05-02T15:34:04","date_gmt":"2025-05-02T12:34:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pozirk.online\/en\/news\/136488\/"},"modified":"2026-03-09T20:10:49","modified_gmt":"2026-03-09T20:10:49","slug":"supreme-court-upholds-lengthy-prison-sentences-against-convicted-rail-partisans","status":"publish","type":"articles","link":"https:\/\/pozirk.online\/en\/news\/136488\/","title":{"rendered":"Supreme Court upholds lengthy prison sentences against convicted \u201crail partisans\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>May 2,&nbsp;<\/strong><strong><em>Pozirk<\/em>.<\/strong>&nbsp;Belarus\u2019 Supreme Court has upheld lengthy prison sentences against three men convicted of an attempted terror attack and damaging railroad equipment near Ta\u0142o\u010dyn, Viciebsk region, seeing by human rights defenders as political prisoners.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ivan Likholat, a Ukrainian, was sentenced to 20 years in prison, Barys Puchalski to 25 years and Ivan Barodzi\u010d, to 11 years, reported the Prosecutor General\u2019s Office.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>They are among at least 34 \u201crail partisans\u201d sentenced for alleged attacks on the railroad infrastructure aimed to disrupt the transportation of military equipment to Russian troops that invaded Ukraine in February 2022.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"insert-block\">\n\n    <div class=\"insert-block__img\">\n        <img decoding=\"async\" width=\"354\" height=\"236\" src=\"https:\/\/pozirk.online\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/bespalov_sk-354x236.jpg\" class=\"attachment-medium size-medium\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pozirk.online\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/bespalov_sk-354x236.jpg 354w, https:\/\/pozirk.online\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/bespalov_sk-734x490.jpg 734w, https:\/\/pozirk.online\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/bespalov_sk-178x118.jpg 178w, https:\/\/pozirk.online\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/bespalov_sk-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/pozirk.online\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/bespalov_sk.jpg 1080w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 354px) 100vw, 354px\" \/>                        <label class=\"insert-block__tag--mobile\"> \u041f\u043e\u043b\u0438\u0442\u0438\u043a\u0430<\/label>\n\n                <\/div>\n    <div class=\"insert-block__text\">\n                    <label class=\"insert-block__tag\">\u041f\u043e\u043b\u0438\u0442\u0438\u043a\u0430<\/label>\n                <h3 class=\"insert-block__title\">Belarus sentences exiled opposition politician to 18 years in prison<\/h3>\n        <div class=\"insert-block__descr\">May 2, Pozirk. The Minsk Regional Court has sentenced opposition politician Siarhiej Biaspa\u0142a\u016d to 18 years in prison and fined him 42,000 rubels (some $14,000) on extremism-related charges without him being present at the trial, the Prosecutor General&#039;s Office reports. &#8230;<\/div>\n        <a class=\"insert-block__btn-block\" href=\"\/en\/news\/136465\">\n            <button class=\"btn\">\n                <div class='btn__text'>Read <\/div>\n            <\/button>\n        <\/a>\n    <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>May 2,&nbsp;Pozirk.&nbsp;Belarus\u2019 Supreme Court has upheld lengthy prison sentences against three men convicted of an attempted terror attack and damaging railroad equipment near Ta\u0142o\u010dyn, Viciebsk region, seeing by human rights defenders as political prisoners. Ivan Likholat, a Ukrainian, was sentenced to 20 years in prison, Barys Puchalski to 25 years and Ivan Barodzi\u010d, to 11 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":83,"featured_media":60593,"template":"","rubric":[14,30],"class_list":["post-136488","articles","type-articles","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","rubric-politics","rubric-security"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Supreme Court upholds lengthy prison sentences against convicted \u201crail partisans\u201d | Pozirk<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"May 2,&nbsp;Pozirk.&nbsp;Belarus\u2019 Supreme Court has upheld lengthy prison sentences against three men convicted of an attempted terror attack and damaging\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" 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