Alina Horava (Kryvashei)

sentenced to 1 year of freedom restriction under home confinement

Date of birth: 19 April 2002

Date of detention: 27 March 2023

Charges indicted:

Art. 342 of the Criminal Code — Organization and preparation of actions that grossly violate public order, or active participation in them

Sentence: 1 1/2 years

Penalty: restricted freedom under home confinement ("domashnyaya khimiya")

Judge: Dzmitryi Sasnouski, Valiantsina Paulava

Alina Horava was arrested on March 27, 2023, in Kruhlaje, Mahilioŭ region. In the evening, she came to the Investigative Committee to testify as a witness in a criminal case on participation in the 2020 peaceful protests and was detained for three days.

At first, they kept her in harsh conditions in the local detention facility. It was cold in the cell, she had to sleep on bare wooden bunks and was not even allowed to cover herself with her clothes. Due to this, her chronic kidney and gynecological diseases worsened. On the evening of March 30, 2023, Alina Horava fell ill, so an ambulance was called for her. The law enforcers did not allow the detainee to be hospitalized, as she was to be transferred to a remand prison with a day hospital.

However, in remand prison #4 in Mahilioŭ, Alina Horava was refused medical care, despite even her bad tests. The prison doctor refused to treat her with antibiotics and hospitalize her.

Horava was charged under Article 342 of the Criminal Code (Organization and preparation of actions grossly disrupting public order or active participation in them).

The trial of the political prisoner began on May 27, 2023, in the Kruhlaje District Court. 

On May 30, 2023, Judge Dzmitryi Sasnouski sentenced the political prisoner to 12 months of freedom restriction under home confinement.

Alina Horava was released in the courtroom.

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