Ivan Murauyou

journalist, cameraman, photographer; sentenced to 1.5 years of imprisonment

Prisoner

Date of birth: 23 November 1978

Date of detention: 29 August 2022

Charges indicted:

  • Art. 361-1 of the Criminal Code — Creation of an extremist formation, or participation in it

Sentence: 2 1/2 years

Penalty: imprisonment in a general-security penal colony

Prison sentence start date: 27 March 2023

Judge: Alena Shylko

Prison: Penal colony No. 2

Groups: Businessmen, Journalists

Cases: Protests in Minsk

On 29 August 2022, the Investigative Committee officers in Minsk detained journalist Ivan Murauyou. He was charged under part 3 of Article 361-1 of the Criminal Code ('Participation in an extremist formation').

Ivan Murauyou is a journalist, cameraman, and photographer who was previously detained in August 2020.

On December 26, 2022, the City Court of Minsk sentenced Murauyou to two and a half years of imprisonment in a general regime penal colony. The case was tried behind closed doors, so the details are unknown. The verdict was delivered by Judge Alena Shylko.

According to the Belarusian Association of Journalists, the case file was only two volumes with one 'criminal' episode. This refers to the video filming for the investigation carried out by the journalist Stanislau Ivashkevich that was shown by the Belsat TV channel. The story titled 'Liliya Lukashenka's girlfriend and oligarchs became beneficiaries of the orthopedists case' was broadcasted in July 2022.

Members of Parliament from Latvia, Germany and the Netherlands take on a godparenthood for Larysa Berazhnova, Kanstantsin Rudnitski and Ivan Murauyou

As part of our solidarity campaign #WeStandBYyou, Sandra Kalniete (European Parliament, Vienotība, Latvia), Deborah Düring (German Bundestag, Alliance 90/The Greens) and Thijs Reuten (European Parliament, Labour Party, Netherlands) have taken on a godparenthood for political prisoners in Belarus.

Mail address: Penal colony No. 2. 213800, Babrujsk, vulica Sikorskaha 1

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