{"id":599793,"date":"2026-11-06T13:30:37","date_gmt":"2026-11-06T10:30:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reform.news\/?p=599793"},"modified":"2026-11-06T14:43:26","modified_gmt":"2026-11-06T11:43:26","slug":"human-rights-activists-report-possible-transfer-of-eduard-babaryka-to-prison-regime","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/human-rights-activists-report-possible-transfer-of-eduard-babaryka-to-prison-regime","title":{"rendered":"Human Rights Activists Report Possible Transfer of Eduard Babaryka to Prison Regime"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p>Political prisoner <b>Eduard Babaryka<\/b> has reportedly been transferred to a prison regime. A former political prisoner told the Viasna Human Rights Center <a href=\"https:\/\/spring96.org\/be\/news\/121605?utm_source=telegram&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_campaign=editorial\">\u201cViasna\u201d<\/a> that Eduard Babaryka was transferred to Hrodna Prison No. 1 at the end of May 2026.<\/p>\n<p>Eduard Babaryka has been in detention for almost six and a half years. In July 2023, he was sentenced to eight years in prison after being found guilty under three articles of the Criminal Code. However, the sentence did not include the one and a half years he had spent in the KGB detention centre under the original charges.<\/p>\n<p>Initially, the political prisoner served his sentence at Penal Colony No. 2 in Babruysk. According to human rights activists, he was constantly subjected to pressure from the administration there.<\/p>\n<p>In July 2024, the first trial was held under the article on \u201cmalicious disobedience\u201d to the colony administration. Judge <b>Pavel Kartsinin<\/b> sentenced Babaryka to an additional two years in prison. After his appeal was considered, he was transferred to Strict-Regime Penal Colony No. 11 in Vaukavysk.<\/p>\n<p>Five months later, the administration of that colony initiated a second criminal case against Babaryka under the same article. Human rights activists do not know the outcome of the trial. After the hearing, the political prisoner was transferred to Penal Colony No. 8.<\/p>\n<p><b>Update:<\/b><\/p>\n<p>After publication, another source told Viasna that <a href=\"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/remains-in-penal-colony-no-8-reports-of-eduard-babaryka-s-transfer-to-a-prison-regime-unconfirmed\">Eduard Babaryka remains in Penal Colony No. 8<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Political prisoner Eduard Babaryka has reportedly been transferred to a prison regime. A former political prisoner told the Viasna Human Rights Center \u201cViasna\u201d that Eduard Babaryka was transferred to Hrodna Prison No. 1 at the end of May 2026. Eduard Babaryka has been in detention for almost six and a half years. In July 2023, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":119,"featured_media":599794,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_sharing_image":{"poster":"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/6aedbd640adb5.jpg","width":1200,"height":630,"template":"691142dd","mode":"auto"},"_sharing_image_fieldset":{"dTVKfmI95PYT":"Human Rights Activists Report Possible Transfer of Eduard Babaryka to Prison Regime"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[142338,143127,143090],"tags":[143174,143178],"class_list":["post-599793","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-society","category-politics","tag-belarusskie-politzakljuchennye","tag-politzakljuchennye"],"acf":[],"wps_subtitle":"","permalink_manager":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/599793","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=599793"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/599793\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":599803,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/599793\/revisions\/599803"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/599794"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=599793"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=599793"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=599793"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}