{"id":499473,"date":"2025-12-01T14:39:33","date_gmt":"2025-12-01T11:39:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reform.news\/?p=499473"},"modified":"2025-12-01T15:36:37","modified_gmt":"2025-12-01T12:36:37","slug":"former-kalinouski-regiment-fighter-hrachykha-sentenced-to-five-years-in-prison","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/former-kalinouski-regiment-fighter-hrachykha-sentenced-to-five-years-in-prison","title":{"rendered":"Former Kalinouski Regiment Fighter Hrachykha Sentenced to Five Years in Prison"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p>Former Kalinouski Regiment fighter <b>Vasil Hrachykha<\/b> has been sentenced to five years in prison, the human-rights centre Viasna reported.<\/p>\n<p>Hrachykha was tried together with <b>Vasil Verameichyk<\/b>. Recently it became known that Verameichyk had been given a 13-year prison term.<\/p>\n<p>Hrachykha was charged under the same 12 articles, including \u201cextremist\u201d offences, as well as participation in an armed conflict on the territory of another state.<\/p>\n<p>News of Hrachykha\u2019s detention emerged in May from a segment broadcast on Belarusian state television. In the footage, he is shown with his hands zip-tied and a bag over his head, being led through a swamp by three armed men in camouflage. The location of the arrest was not disclosed. Hrachykha is then brought by car to a military helicopter and handed over to KGB officers. During the flight he lies on the floor while a KGB officer presses him down with his foot. Upon landing, he is met by <b>Kanstantsin Bychak<\/b>, head of the KGB\u2019s Investigative Department.<\/p>\n<p>Vasil Hrachykha joined the Kalinouski Regiment in May 2022 but left the unit shortly thereafter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Kalinouski Regiment fighter Vasil Hrachykha has been sentenced to five years in prison, the human-rights centre Viasna reported. Hrachykha was tried together with Vasil Verameichyk. Recently it became known that Verameichyk had been given a 13-year prison term. Hrachykha was charged under the same 12 articles, including \u201cextremist\u201d offences, as well as participation in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":119,"featured_media":499472,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sharing_image":{"poster":"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/692d8bdc07c48.jpg","width":1200,"height":630,"template":"691142dd","mode":"auto"},"_sharing_image_fieldset":{"dTVKfmI95PYT":"Former Kalinouski Regiment Fighter Hrachykha Sentenced to Five Years in Prison"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[142339,142338],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-499473","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-main","category-news"],"wps_subtitle":"","permalink_manager":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/499473","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/119"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=499473"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/499473\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/499472"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=499473"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=499473"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=499473"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}