{"id":525000,"date":"2026-03-12T15:38:14","date_gmt":"2026-03-12T12:38:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reform.news\/?p=525000"},"modified":"2026-03-12T16:30:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-12T13:30:07","slug":"aliaksei-kubrakou-convicted-in-the-bysol-case-released-from-prison","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/aliaksei-kubrakou-convicted-in-the-bysol-case-released-from-prison","title":{"rendered":"Aliaksei Kubrakou, Convicted in the \u201cBYSOL Case,\u201d Released From Prison"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p>Political prisoner and lawyer <b>Aliaksei Kubrakou<\/b> 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.<\/p>\n<p>Law enforcement officials described Kubrakou as a \u201cBYSOL courier.\u201d Three other people were tried alongside him.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>The defendants were tried under an article on participation in an \u201cextremist formation.\u201d According to investigators, they were BYSOL couriers \u2014 <i>\u201ctheir 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.\u201d<\/i><\/p>\n<p>The BYSOL foundation states that it has no \u201ccouriers\u201d in Belarus.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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 \u201cBYSOL courier.\u201d Three other people were tried alongside him. Kubrakou was detained in October 2024. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":119,"featured_media":524999,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sharing_image":{"poster":"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/69b2bfe6d4780.jpg","width":1200,"height":630,"template":"691142dd","mode":"auto"},"_sharing_image_fieldset":{"dTVKfmI95PYT":"Aliaksei Kubrakou, Convicted in the \u201cBYSOL Case,\u201d Released From Prison"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[142339,142338,143127],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-525000","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-main","category-news","category-society"],"wps_subtitle":"","permalink_manager":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/525000","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=525000"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/525000\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/524999"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=525000"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=525000"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=525000"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}