Arrested Belarusian blogger’s case to be tried behind closed doors


Zrzut ekranu 2016-10-05 o 14.24.17

Eduard Palchys’ case will be heard in camera, his wife Viktoryia Shchukevich says.

1863x.com, a political blog created by Palchys aka Jhon Silver is dedicated to the current political developments in Belarus, Russia and Ukraine, as well as Belarusian history and culture. The unsigned materials sharply criticized the regimes of Alyaksandr Lukashenka and Vladimir Putin.

“They will find him guilty of inciting ethnic hatred for caling Russia an aggressor and a potential threat to the independence of Belarus. They will also account him guilty of porno peddling. There is no need to say that they just want to lock him up, that is why this ‘porn’ article has popped up. Dzmitry Paliyenka’s case is a proof of it,” Palchys’ wife said on Facebook.

The trial will be held behind closed doors so that the Belarusian authorities could hide the shame and disgrace of the investigation, prosecution and justice and declare Eduard Palchys extremist and porn peddler, the woman stressed.

According to Silver, two criminal cases were brought against him in 2015 for his activities in the blog – for allegedly inciting ethnic strife (in particular, for the article ‘Kill the Russian World’) and spreading pornography.

The blogger decided to hide in Ukraine. All the while he lived in Kyiv, from where he continued to work on the blog. But when the blogger went to a meeting in Russia in January 2016, he was arrested and put in jail. At the beginning of 2016 Sputnik i Pogrom, an extreme right-wing Russian organization, reported that the real name of the ‘Russophobe from Belarus’ is Eduard Palchys

Then Palchys was transferred from Russia’s Bryansk jail to Belarus.

The blogger may face up to five years of imprisonment for ‘inciting hatred’ and up to two or for years in jail – for allegedly distributing pornography. The charges are pointless and artificial, Belarusian human rights defenders say.

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