Raman Bahryi

sentenced to 2 1/2 years under home confinement

Former prisoner

Date of birth: 6 August 2001

Date of detention: 3 August 2022

Charges indicted:

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

Sentence: 2 1/2 years

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

Judge: Siarhei Shatsila

Cases: Protests in Minsk

Raman Bahryi was detained together with his partner, political prisoner Viktoryia Zhdanovich, on August 3, 2022. He was first sentenced to 12 days of administrative detention, then detained in a criminal case for ‘group actions that grossly violate the public order’ (Article 342 of the Criminal Code).

He was placed in pre-trial detention center.

On October 26, 2022, Bahryi was found guilty and sentenced to two and a half years of restricted freedom under home confinement.

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