Youtube bloggers Siarhei Piatrukhin and MozgON under crmininal investigation

  For­mal charges may be brought with­in the next three days. If this hap­pens, the blog­ger will be trans­ferred to the pre-tri­al deten­tion cen­ter.

There are grounds to believe that blog­ger and spokesman of Tsikhanouskaya’s ini­tia­tive group Ali­ak­san­dr Kabanau, who had been serv­ing 15 days of jail, is also in cus­tody in this crim­i­nal case.

Also, Vias­na reports, crim­i­nal charges have been ini­ti­at­ed against blog­ger Uladzmir Tsy­hanovich (Moz­gON). The human rights defend­ers are work­ing to find out the arti­cle of the Crim­i­nal Code they are try­ing to charge him with. Tsy­hanovich has been trans­ferred to the pre-tri­al deten­tion cen­ter on Val­adars­ki street. 

Alto­geth­er, at least 11 peo­ple were arrest­ed as part of the «Tsikhanouski’s case» under Art. 342 of the Crim­i­nal Code. Ihar Losik, admin­is­tra­tor of the ‘Cor­ti­cal Belarus’ Telegram chan­nel and a free­lance con­sul­tant with RFE/RL, has been inves­ti­gat­ed in a crim­i­nal case under the same charges. At the moment, Losik is in a tem­po­rary deten­tion facil­i­ty in Akrestsi­na Street in Min­sk.