“Urad D. M., born in 1991, was found guilty of treason to the state committed by a person who is subject to the status of a military man,” the message said.
Urad was stripped of the rank of captain, the verdict entered into force.
The trial over him was held behind closed doors. This is the harshest sentence since the beginning of protests in Belarus against election fraud and violence, reported May 14 Radio Svaboda.
“In March 2021, Captain Denis Urad was arrested and placed in custody on charges of high treason, who, while on duty at a special communications post of the General Staff of the Armed Forces, photographed a secret letter from the Minister of Internal Affairs to the Minister of Defense about the involvement of the armed forces in activities to support law and order and sent a copy to the Telegram channel, “- wrote April 29 human rights center “Viasna”.
According to Radio Svaboda, the matter concerns Polish Telegram-channel.
Human rights activists recognized Urad as a political prisoner. They stressed that in accordance with Art. 19 of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, everyone has the right to freely adhere to their opinions.
“Everyone has the right to freedom of expression. This right includes the freedom to seek, receive and disseminate all kinds of information and ideas, regardless of state borders,” the human rights organization said.
On August 9, 2020, presidential elections were held in Belarus, after which mass protests began, those who did not agree with the voting results. According to official figures, the victory in them was won by Lukashenka, who has been in power since 1994, for which 80.1% of voters voted. The second place with 10.1% of the votes was taken by the oppositionist Svetlana Tikhanovskaya. At the same time, alternative exit polls showed the opposite picture – a confident victory for Tikhanovskaya.
Belarusian security forces violently dispersed rallies using stun grenades, rubber bullets and water cannons… During the protests, hundreds of demonstrators were injured and injured. According to the human rights center “Viasna”, since August in the country detained more than 25 thousand people, in total they received 83 thousand days of arrest. The authorities announced four dead protesters, opposition – about eight.
On September 23, Lukashenko held a secret inauguration ceremony, for the first time in the history of Belarus. not announced and not televised… A number of states, including the USA, Great Britain, Canada, Germany, Latvia, Lithuania, Norway, Poland, Denmark, Ukraine and Czech Republic, did not recognize Lukashenka’s inauguration.
The opposition insists on holding new elections in Belarus. Lukashenka said that first, the country needs to change the constitution (the draft of the new constitution, according to him, will present in 2021), and only after that hold new elections.
As of May 15 in Belarus, political prisoners recognized 377 people, reported human rights center “Vesna”. Most of them came under criminal prosecution after the presidential elections.
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