{"id":209215,"date":"2026-10-27T20:42:48","date_gmt":"2026-10-27T17:42:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pozirk.online\/en\/news\/209215\/"},"modified":"2026-10-27T20:42:50","modified_gmt":"2026-10-27T17:42:50","slug":"three-men-given-up-to-25-years-over-alleged-links-to-bypol","status":"publish","type":"articles","link":"https:\/\/pozirk.online\/en\/news\/209215\/","title":{"rendered":"Three men given up to 25 years over alleged links to ByPol"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

October 27, Pozirk.<\/em> <\/strong>The Minsk City Court on Monday sentenced three men to up to 25 years in prison over their alleged links to ByPol, a now-defunct exiled resistance and intelligence group.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ivan Ba\u0142a\u0161enka, Hienrych Ahieje\u016d and Juryj Vasile\u016dski have been sentenced to 25, 21 and 17 years in prison, respectively, on 12 criminal charges, including terrorism and high treason, the Viasna Human Rights Center reported.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ba\u0142a\u0161enka is a former Special Operations Forces officer and instructor at the Military Academy who ended his academic career in 2021 and became a taxi driver.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ahieje\u016d is a former law-enforcement officer in the Brest region who was arrested in Russian-occupied Crimea in February 2024 after allegedly travelling there at the request of ByPol chief Alaksandr Azara\u016d. Ahieje\u016d was held in the Russian Federal Security Service (FSB)\u2019s detention center for seven months together with Ukrainian prisoners of war and reportedly subjected to torture. In September 2024, he was extradited to Belarus and placed in the Committee for State Security (KGB)\u2019s detention center in Minsk and later in the detention center in Kaladzi\u010dy near Minsk.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Vasile\u016dski was arrested in September 2025 and also held in the KGB\u2019s detention center and the jail in Kaladzi\u010dy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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