Bahdan Karavets
Businessman, founder of IT company, sentenced to 2 years of imprisonment
Date of birth: 7 May
Date of detention: 24 October 2022
Charges indicted:
Art. 342 of the Criminal Code — Organization and preparation of actions that grossly violate public order, or active participation in them
Sentence: 2 years
Penalty: imprisonment in a general-security penal colony
Prison sentence start date: 19 May 2023
Judge: Katsiaryna Murashka
Prison: Pre-trial detention center No. 1
Bahdan Karavets is a businessman who founded the Astronim web design company. He is raising a child with a disability.
Karavets was arrested on October 24, 2022, as a defendant in a criminal case for 'active participation in group actions grossly disrupting public order' (Article 342 of the Criminal Code). He was placed in remanded prison #1 in Minsk.
The trial of Bahdan Karavets and Aksana Zaretskaya—a political prisoner, an etiquette expert—began on March 10, 2023, in the Maskoŭski District Court of Minsk.
On March 14, 2023, Judge Katsiaryna Murashka found the political prisoners guilty and sentenced Bahdan Karavets to 24 months of imprisonment in a general-security penal colony. Aksana Zaretskaya was sentenced to 18 months of imprisonment.
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