Three "rail guerrillas" sentenced to more than 20 years in prison in Belarus

This is reported by the human rights project Gomelskaya Vesna.

Belarus continues its repressive activities. Now three guerrillas, believed to be members of the "rail movement," were sentenced to prison there. They tried to prevent the transportation of military equipment towards Ukraine in the early days of the Russian invasion. They were sentenced to prison terms of 21 to 23 years.

According to the version of the Investigative Committee of Belarus, Oleg Molchanov, Dmitriy Ravich and Denis Dikun on February 28, the fifth day of the war, set fire to a relay cabinet on the Zherd - Ostankovichy line on the railway to Ukraine. Their actions resulted in putting traffic lights and switches on this section of the road out of operation for some time.

A Belarusian court found the activists guilty under the articles "terrorism", "high treason", "deliberate damage of communication lines" and "participation in an extremist formation".

The court sentenced Molchanau to 21 years in prison, Ravich to 22 years, and Dikun to 23 years.