Court in Belarus sentenced to 3 years of imprisonment of 42-year-old Sergei Nepogod. In September 2021, the Russian authorities expelled him to Belarus from St. Petersburg. How reminds BBC, this is the second participant of the protests against Alexander Lukashenko, convicted after deportation from Russia. Earlier, the court arrested the world kickboxing champion Alexei Kudin for 2.5 years.
The court found Nepegoda guilty of violent resistance to the police during the protests in Molodechno at the beginning of the presidential campaign.
Bad weather spent six months in a pre-trial detention center in St. Petersburg, and in September he was expelled from Russia and convicted in the city of Molodechno, Minsk region.
Earlier today reportedthat in Belarus the Minsk City Court sentenced blogger Eduard Palchis to 13 years in a maximum security colony on charges of inciting social hostility and discord, which entailed grave consequences (part 3 of article 130 of the Criminal Code), organizing mass riots (part 1 of article 293 of the Criminal Code ), organizing a gross violation of order (part 1 of article 342 of the Criminal Code) and calls for action against the national security of Belarus (part 3 of article 361 of the Criminal Code).