Minsk court sentenced 21-year-old Russian Yegor Dudnikov to 11 years in prison
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In Belarus, a court sentenced 21-year-old Russian citizen Yegor Dudnikov to 11 years in a maximum security colony on charges of inciting social hatred and calling for action against national security, RIA Novosti reports.
This is the period the prosecutor asked to appoint to Dudnikov.
Yegor Dudnikov moved to Belarus for the sake of his girlfriend. He was detained in May. At first, the young man was accused of organizing and preparing actions that grossly violate public order. He was charged with the voice acting of videos for the opposition during the mass protests that gripped Belarus after the 2020 presidential elections.
Human rights activists called Dudnikov a political prisoner. In June, he managed to convey through his lawyer a note from the pre-trial detention center, in which he said that the Belarusian security forces tortured him, beat him and threatened him with murder.
