The state prosecutor’s office asked the court in Minsk to sentence the Belarusian dissidents Svetlana Tikhanovskaya and Pavel Latushka, accused of treason and corruption, to 19 years in prison in absentia. It has been reported BelTA.
According to the agency, the other three dissidents – Maria Moroz, Olga Kovalkova and Sergei Dylevsky – are each facing 12 years in prison in absentia. They are accused of plotting to unconstitutionally seize state power, forming an extremist community, demanding sanctions and inciting social discord.
According to the agency, they want to send the men to a high-security colony and the women to serve their sentences in a general-regime colony. The state prosecutor asks Latushko to return an amount ($10,000) to the Belarusian treasury, corresponding to the amount of the bribe he accepted.
Previously, press secretary of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Belarus Olga Chemodanova reportedThat Tikhanovskaya is still on the interstate wanted list in the CIS.