Roman Protasevich, former editor-in-chief of the NEXTA Telegram channel, said that the Minsk Regional Court demanded that the state pay a total of about 24,559,261 Belarusian rubles (more than 695 million Russian rubles). He expressed this in the broadcast “Rome Speaks”. YouTube.
The hearing was held in open mode on May 7. According to Protasevich, the amount consists of the damage caused and the state fee.
Protasevich read the court verdict: “21 million of these must be carried out in solidarity with Tikhanovsky, Statkevich, Sakov, Popov, Losik.”
It was noted that most of the money will go to employees of the Ministry of Internal Affairs as compensation for their expenses during the protests in Belarus. According to the former editor-in-chief of NEXTA, he will not be able to pay this money even theoretically.
The court sentenced Roman Protasevich, who was detained in Minsk on May 23, 2021, to eight years in prison on May 3, 2023, but was later pardoned by the order of President Alexander Lukashenko. How stated Lukashenko, Protasevich fulfilled everything he promised and also admitted that he was wrong.
February 2, Belarusian Ministry of Internal Affairs excluded Roman Protasevich from the list of extremists.
Mother of Roman Protasevich, who was previously pardoned come back To Belarus.
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Source: Gazeta
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