Political prisoner and lawyer Aliaksei Kubrakou has been released from prison. He was sentenced in February, but had spent so long in pre-trial detention that his term had already expired, Nasha Niva reports.
Law enforcement officials described Kubrakou as a “BYSOL courier.” Three other people were tried alongside him.
Kubrakou was detained in October 2024. Since then he had been held in a pre-trial detention centre. On February 12, 2026, the court sentenced him to two years in a penal colony and a fine of 22,500 rubles. Another defendant in the case received the same sentence, while two others were sentenced to three years in a penal colony.
The defendants were tried under an article on participation in an “extremist formation.” According to investigators, they were BYSOL couriers — “their tasks included receiving and transferring money to other members of the formation and distributing it for the needs of participants in illegal protest and extremist activities.”
The BYSOL foundation states that it has no “couriers” in Belarus.
