Viktar Bedryi
Telegram channel administrator
Prisoner
Date of birth: 24 June 1979
Date of detention: 25 March 2022
Charges indicted:
- Art. 361 of the Criminal Code — Calls for actions aimed at causing harm to the national security of the Republic of Belarus
Sentence: 3 years
Penalty: imprisonment in a medium-security penal colony
Prison sentence start date: 25 March 2022
Judge: Ruslan Tsaruk
Prosecutor: Yuliya Kanapelkina
Prison: Penal colony No. 22
Groups: Telegram channel administrators
Victor Bedriy is the administrator of the “Pietrykaŭ 97%” Telegram channel.
On March 25, 2022, the court found Victor Bedriy guilty under Part 1 Article 361-1 of the Criminal Code for leading an extremist group and sentenced him to three years in a medium-security regime colony. Victor was taken into custody in the courtroom.
Taking pics of Russian troops considered extremism