TUT.BY Journalist Borisevich Transferred To Gomel Women’s Colony

Recall that Kate­ri­na Bori­se­vich was tried for dis­clos­ing med­ical secrets, which, accord­ing to the Pros­e­cu­tor General’s Office, entailed grave con­se­quences, that is “increased ten­sion in soci­ety, the cre­ation of an atmos­phere of mis­trust in the com­pe­tent state bod­ies, encour­ag­ing cit­i­zens to aggres­sion and ille­gal actions”. Emer­gency hos­pi­tal doc­tor Artem Sorokin was also found guilty in the case, he was sen­tenced to two years of impris­on­ment sus­pend­ed for a year and released in a court­room, while Bori­se­vich remained in cus­tody. Both Kate­ri­na and Artem plead­ed not guilty.

Recall that last Novem­ber, the Inves­tiga­tive Com­mit­tee out­lined its ver­sion of events, stat­ing that “dur­ing the ini­tial exam­i­na­tion, along with bod­i­ly injuries, he [Roman Bon­darenko] was diag­nosed with alco­hol intox­i­ca­tion.” How­ev­er, almost simul­ta­ne­ous­ly with this state­ment, a copy of a med­ical doc­u­ment emerged online, which indi­cat­ed that there was no alco­hol in Bondarenko’s blood. Bori­se­vich was tasked with check­ing this infor­ma­tion. After a while, an arti­cle was pub­lished on TUT.BY: Emer­gency Hos­pi­tal Doc­tor: “Bon­darenko Had 0 ‰ Of Alco­hol, We Found Noth­ing” [In Eng­lish]

The prosecutor’s office filed a protest against Borisevich’s ver­dict “in view of the lenien­cy of the sen­tence imposed”, but the Min­sk City Court upheld it – six months in prison. Our col­league was detained on 19 Novem­ber 2020, all this time she was kept in a pre-tri­al deten­tion cen­tre (first in Min­sk, then in Zhodi­no, and in Mogilev), where one day equals one day in a colony. Her prison term expires on 19 May, Kate­ri­na should be released.