{"id":566090,"date":"2026-08-06T17:51:21","date_gmt":"2026-08-06T14:51:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reform.news\/?p=566090"},"modified":"2026-08-06T19:53:20","modified_gmt":"2026-08-06T16:53:20","slug":"political-prisoner-vadzim-zdaravennau-may-face-additional-prison-term","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/political-prisoner-vadzim-zdaravennau-may-face-additional-prison-term","title":{"rendered":"Political Prisoner Vadzim Zdaravennau May Face Additional Prison Term"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p>Political prisoner <strong>Vadzim Zdaravennau<\/strong>, who is already serving a sentence at the Shklou Correctional Colony, has been transferred to Detention Center No. 1 in Kaliadzichy. A new criminal case against him is expected to be heard there in the near future, and he could receive an additional prison term.<\/p>\n<p>As the Viasna Human Rights Center <a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/viasna96\/35992\">reported<\/a>, the court hearing may take place in about a month.<\/p>\n<p>According to the rights defenders, Zdaravennau has been charged under several articles of the Criminal Code: Part 1 of Article 342 (organizing or actively participating in actions that grossly violate public order), Part 1 of Article 130 (incitement of racial, national, religious or other social hatred or discord), and Parts 1 and 2 of Article 363-1 (unlawful actions involving information about private life and personal data).<\/p>\n<p>According to Viasna, the new case is related to comments and photographs found on his laptop.<\/p>\n<p>It became known as early as February 2026 that a second criminal case had been opened against Vadzim Zdaravennau, but details of the charges had not previously been disclosed.<\/p>\n<p>Vadzim Zdaravennau, from Rechytsa, is the brother of activist <a href=\"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/activist-from-rechytsa-sentenced-to-10-years-in-prison-and-heavy-fine\"><b>Ales Zdaravennau<\/b><\/a>. He was detained in Minsk on April 10, 2025, several days after his brother&#8217;s arrest. He was charged under Article 368 of the Criminal Code (insulting Lukashenka). On Nov. 10, 2025, he was sentenced to two years in a general-regime penal colony for an online comment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Political prisoner Vadzim Zdaravennau, who is already serving a sentence at the Shklou Correctional Colony, has been transferred to Detention Center No. 1 in Kaliadzichy. A new criminal case against him is expected to be heard there in the near future, and he could receive an additional prison term. As the Viasna Human Rights Center [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":119,"featured_media":566089,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sharing_image":{"poster":"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/6a74bc03e049a.jpg","width":1200,"height":630,"template":"691142dd","mode":"auto"},"_sharing_image_fieldset":{"dTVKfmI95PYT":"Political Prisoner Vadzim Zdaravennau May Face Additional Prison Term"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[142339,142338,143090],"tags":[143174,143178],"class_list":["post-566090","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-main","category-news","category-politics","tag-belarusskie-politzakljuchennye","tag-politzakljuchennye"],"wps_subtitle":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/566090","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=566090"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/566090\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/566089"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=566090"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=566090"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=566090"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}