A citizen of Belarus released from a pre-trial detention center was detained in St. Petersburg. After six months in prison, he faces extradition

In St. Petersburg, at the exit from the remand prison, a citizen of Belarus Sergei Nepogoda was detained, who spent six months in the remand prison, writes Mediazona with reference to the Belarusian diaspora in St. Petersburg.

Sergei Nepegoda was detained in St. Petersburg on March 18, 2021. The Ministry of Internal Affairs of Belarus claims that he left for Russia last summer to hide from criminal prosecution “after a group attack on riot police.” The Prosecutor General’s Office of Belarus demanded his extradition. On September 16, Sergei Nepogoda was released from the pre-trial detention center, as the decision on extradition was not made.

According to the information of the Belarusian diaspora, the next day Nepegoda ended up in the police department No. 80 of the Kolpinsky district. After drawing up the protocol, he was to be taken to court to consider the issue of expulsion from Russia.

Lawyer Andrei Fedorkov said that Bad weather in Belarus was accused of resisting the police on June 19, 2020 during a solidarity rally. On that day, a minibus with riot police arrived at the crowd and detained one of the protesters, Nikolai Aleinik. Several people ran up to the police, a scuffle ensued, after which the security forces left.

Russia extradits Belarus to its citizens accused of participating in the protests in the summer of 2020. On September 9, a court in Belgorod made a decision to extradite Vadim Duboisky, who is accused at home of having “moved at least three benches to the roadway”. The lawyers intend to appeal to the European Court of Human Rights to stop the extradition: Vadim was already beaten in the detention center in August 2020. He is threatened with torture again, the defense is sure.

World Thai boxing champion Alexei Kudin was taken to Belarus despite the ban of the ECHR and sentenced by 2.5 years in a general regime colony. Human rights defenders from the Moscow Helsinki Group (MHG) and the Civic Assistance Committee are aware of at least a dozen cases of Belarusians who are trying to return to their homeland through extradition or other migration mechanisms (ban on entry, deportation), as well as kidnapped and squeezed out of Russia. informs “Present time”.