In Minsk, opponent Lukashenko was condemned in the elections

The court in Minsk sentenced the ex-candidate to the president of Belarus Andrei Dmitriev by the year and six months of the colony of general regime in the case of rude violation of order. This was reported by the human rights center "Viesna".

According to investigators, Dmitriev participated three times in protests and blocked the traffic. The politician pleaded guilty and stated that he tried to move through the pedestrian zones, but when there were many people, he had to go to the roadway.

Dmitriev was detained in January 2023. According to the SK Belarus, in addition to the fact that the politician took an active part in street protests, he also allegedly contacted the US State Secretariat and personally with his former head of Hillary Clinton, according to the investigation, "testifies to the coordination of his political activity abroad."

• Andrei Dmitriev was first detained in August 2021, but then released on non -disclosure. Then he could not explain what criminal case he was detained, but he said that "the list of articles there is huge, it was impossible to remember," and promised that he would remain in Belarus "until the last."
• Dmitriev participated in the 2020 presidential election as a candidate. According to the data voiced by the data, he received 1.2% of the vote. Immediately after the election, he demanded recalculating the results and announced the support of Svetlana Tikhanovskaya.
• After the mass protests of 2020, in Belarus caused by the results of the presidential election, Lukashenko began repressions against disagreements. At least 13 thousand people left the country. In Belarusian prisons there are at least 1487 political prisoners. Among them are politicians, journalists, human rights activists and civil activists.