Supreme Court upholds conviction of Śvietłahorsk “railway partisans”

April 7, BPN. The Supreme Court upheld the prison sentences given to Śvietłahorsk’s “railway partisans” Dźmitryju Ravič, Dzianis Dzikun and Aleh Małčanaŭ, said Homiel’s branch of the Viasna Human Rights Center.

The closed-door trial of the railway partisans began in Homiel on September 27, 2022. They were accused of an arson attack on the railway’s relay cabinet, carried out four days after Russia invaded Ukraine in February 2022. They were also tried for high treason, involvement in the opposition’s Victory Plan (Płan Pieramoha) and links to the ByPol resistance group.

The trial lasted three months and resulted in 22 years’ imprisonment for Ravič, 23 years for Dzikun and 21 years for Małčanaŭ.

Dzikun would soon be transferred to Horki’s Corrective Colony No 9. Małčanaŭ would serve his sentence in Navapołack’s Corrective Colony No 1, and Ravič – in Mahiloŭ’s Corrective Colony No 15.