The place of Brest activist Alena Hnauk was raided on Monday evening, the woman said on Instagram.
The search was conducted as part of a case regarding threats against Mikhail Bulyhin, a senior prosecutor at Brest City Prosecutor’s Office. The case was initiated over publishing the prosecutor’s personal data on one of the ‘protest’ Telegram channels; at the moment, Alena has a status of witness. In the course of the search, an old laptop, a pendrive and a mobile phone were confiscated.
It was Mikhail Bulyhin who prosecuted in September’s trial of Hnauk. Then the activist was sentenced to three years of restriction of liberty without being sent to a correctinal facility for ‘insulting the president’ (Article 368 of the Criminal Code).
In the spring of 2021, Alena Hnauk was tried in the so called round dance case for ‘organisation and preparation of actions that grossly violate public order’ (Article 342 of the Criminal Code). Then, she got two years of restriction of liberty without being sent to a correctional facility.
