Aksana Kolb sentenced to 2.5 years of freedom restriction and released from courtroom

Judge Zmitser Kar­siuk found her guilty of active par­tic­i­pa­tion in actions that gross­ly vio­late
pub­lic order.

She was released in the court­room after the ver­dict. The jour­nal­ist signed a writ­ten pledge not to
leave town until she is sent to serve her sen­tence.
Aksana Kolb was rec­og­nized as a polit­i­cal pris­on­er

On April 20, secu­ri­ty offi­cers with shields and sledge­ham­mers raid­ed the apart­ment of the Novy
Chas chief edi­tor. They brought her for inter­ro­ga­tion to the Inves­tiga­tive Com­mit­tee, where she
was detained for 10 days. Aksana Kolb was lat­er charged under a pop­u­lar arti­cle for her
par­tic­i­pa­tion in a march in August 2020.
The Novy Chas news­pa­per has not been pub­lished since August 2021 and its web­site was
blocked in Octo­ber 2021.