Swimmer Aliaksandra Herasimenia, bronze medalist in 2016Getty
Aliaksandra Herasimenia, 2012 and 2016 Olympic swimming medalist sentenced to 12 years in jail in Belarus for “creating an extremist formation”
A Belarusian courtroom has sentenced former Olympic swimmer Aliaxandra Herasimenia and political activist Alexander Opeykin to 12 years in jail on Monday after being discovered responsible of allegedly committing actions aimed toward inflicting hurt to nationwide safety.
Specifically, the Minsk City Court has sentenced them for creating the Belarusian Sports Solidarity Fund affiliation and “intentionally spreading false info” by the media and the Internet in regards to the occasions that they had through the electoral marketing campaign for the elections in 2020, as collected by the state company BelTA. “They have been discovered responsible of creating public calls to commit actions aimed toward inflicting hurt to the nationwide safety of Belarus, together with using restrictive measures (sanctions) towards Belarus, pure and authorized individuals of the republic,” the textual content of the sentence wields. . In addition, he’s sentenced for criticizing the communist authorities of Belarus.
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Aliaksandra Herasimenia and Alexander Opeikin have been “sentenced” to 12 years in jail. The defendants are in political exile pic.twitter.com/fFTN0IUU3U
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Aliaxandra Herasimenia, a three-time Olympic medalist through the London Olympic Games (2012) and the Rio de Janeiro Olympic Games (2016), should serve her sentence in a basic jail. Meanwhile, Opeykin should enter a jail with a bolstered regime, as detailed by the aforementioned company.
This sentence comes greater than a yr after the Belarusian Olympian Krystsina Tsimanouskaya denounced on the Japan Olympic Games that the authorities of her nation have been forcing her to depart the Japanese nation towards her will.
Die Regierungskritikerin wurde in Abwesenheit zu 12 Jahren Haft verurteilt. Sie grĂ¼ndete nach Lukaschenkos Wiederwahl die »Belarussische Stiftung fĂ¼r sportliche Solidarität« um politisch verfolgten Sportlern zu helfen. https://t.co/2AYMjiI2wn
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The 200-meter runner had beforehand been vocal in her criticism of the Belarusian committee, which is led by the son of the nation’s president, for forcing her to run in a relay occasion on brief discover. The Belarusian Olympic staff later introduced that that they had withdrawn her from the competitors as a result of her “emotional and psychological state”.
Olympic medalist in swimming Aliaksandra Herasimenia was sentenced to 12 years in jail in Belarus, in a trial that she was present process, accused of elevating “an extremist formation”. pic.twitter.com/ebLZd3aTtz
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