‘Revolutionary Action’ case sent to court. 10 political prisoners involved in it


10 political prisoners. Source: Viasna

The Belarusian Investigative Committee has submitted the case of human rights activist Marfa Rabkova and nine other political prisoners has to court, HRC Viasna reports.

Marfa Rabkova, Andrey Chapyuk, Akikhiro Hayeuski-Khanada, Alyaksandr Frantskevich, Alyaksei Halauko, Alyaksandr Kazlyanka, Pavel Shpetny, Mikita Dranets, Andrey Marach, Danila Chul are accused of organising and running leading three anarchist groups (Revolutionary Action and other), or participating in them. They will be for the events that occured in 2016-2020. The case file consists of 160 volumes.

According to the committee, the persons faced the charges under ten criminal articles (depending on the roles they played in the above mentioned organisations), including ‘establishing extremist groups and participating in them’, ‘inciting social hatred’, ‘desecrating buildings and damaging property’, ‘calls for actions to harm national security’.

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The investigators describe three political prisoners, including Marfa Rabkova, as leaders of ‘organised criminal groups that had autonomous cells in the regions of Belarus’. All the activities of the organisation and its subdivisions were aimed at forcible change of the constitutional order and territorial integrity of the Republic of Belarus, the representatives of the Investigative Committee believe.

Marfa Rabkova, a coordinator of the volunteer service of HRC Viasna, has been kept in Minsk detention centre Nr 1 on Valadarski Street. In the wake of her arrest in mid September 2020, Marfa was charged under Article 293-3 of the Criminal Code (‘training or other preparation of persons to participate in mass riot or financing of such activities’). In February, new charges under Article 130-3 (‘incitement of racial, national, religious or other social enmity or hatred, committed by a group of persons’), as well as under Article 285-2 (‘participation in a criminal organisation’) were levelled against the girl. In early May, Marfa Rabkova was placed on the preventive list as ‘a person prone to extremism’. Later, she faced eight more criminal charges. If found guilty, the girl may face up to 15 years of imprisonment.

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