Ivan Murauyou to be transferred to Babrujsk correctional facility after appeal

Jan­u­ary 11, Ivan Murauy­ou was trans­ferred from Min­sk pre-tri­al deten­tion cen­ter to a remand prison in Mahil­iou, where he is await­ing the con­sid­er­a­tion of his appeal. The convict’s trans­fer to Babru­jsk cor­rec­tion­al facil­i­ty depends on the time­ly appoint­ment of the date of the appeal hear­ing in the Supreme Court.

In his let­ters, the polit­i­cal pris­on­er writes that he has par­tial­ly adapt­ed to the real­i­ties of the “relo­ca­tion base” over the past three weeks. Com­pared to the over­crowd­ed Min­sk deten­tion cen­ter, the con­di­tions in Mahil­iou are bet­ter – there is more space in the cells and exer­cise yards. He tries to use his time pro­duc­tive­ly: he reads a lot, edu­cates his fel­low inmates, and accu­mu­lates “inter­est­ing life expe­ri­ence.”

On 26 Decem­ber 2022, Ivan was sen­tenced to 2.5 years of impris­on­ment in a closed tri­al. The case was relat­ed to the videographer’s video mate­r­i­al meant for a jour­nal­ist inves­ti­ga­tion of a cor­rup­tion case broad­cast on the Bel­sat TV chan­nel. Murauy­ou was there­fore con­vict­ed for par­tic­i­pat­ing in an extrem­ist for­ma­tion.