Ivanna Bahovik

in custody pending trial

Prisoner

Date of birth: 5 June 1984

Date of detention: 29 June 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: 2 years

Penalty: imprisonment in a general-security penal colony

Judge: Alena Zhyvitsa

Prison: Penal colony No. 4

Cases: Protests in Minsk

Ivanna Bahovik

Ivanna Bahovik is the wife of Anatol Bahovik, a former executive director of Belarusbank, the largest state-owned bank in Belarus. The spouses were arrested for participating in the 2020 peaceful protests and charged under Part 1 of Article 342 of the Criminal Code ('Organization and preparation of actions grossly disrupting public order or active participation in them').

Judge Alena Zhyvitsa is to hear their case.

The Bahoviks have two dependent children.

Mail address: Penal colony No. 4. 246035, Homieĺ, vulica Antoshkina 3

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