{"id":603370,"date":"2026-11-13T19:42:36","date_gmt":"2026-11-13T16:42:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reform.news\/?p=603370"},"modified":"2026-11-13T20:18:44","modified_gmt":"2026-11-13T17:18:44","slug":"art-manager-aleh-larychau-sentenced-to-seven-years-in-prison","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/art-manager-aleh-larychau-sentenced-to-seven-years-in-prison","title":{"rendered":"Art Manager Aleh Larychau Sentenced To Seven Years In Prison"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p>Art manager <strong>Aleh Larychau<\/strong>\u00a0has been sentenced to seven years in a penal colony, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/100010495181286\/posts\/3199194470440361\/\">Alina Hiera\u0161\u010danka<\/a> reported on Facebook. He was also ordered to pay a fine of 1,000 base units (45,000 rubles).<\/p>\n<p><b>Siamion Malashenkau<\/b> was sentenced to four years in a penal colony and fined 500 base units (22,500 rubles). The KGB identified Malashenkau as being involved in the <a href=\"https:\/\/reform.news\/iniciativa-da-zora-priznana-jekstremistskim-formirovaniem\/\">\u201cDa Zorau\u201d initiative<\/a>, which was designated an \u201cextremist group.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><i>\u201cFor his cultural activities, the Lukashenka court sentenced <\/i><em>Aleh Larychau<\/em><i> to seven years under a high-security regime and a fine of 1,000 base units.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><em>Siamion Malashenkau was sentenced to four years under a high-security regime and a fine of 500 base units,\u201d<\/em> Hiera\u0161\u010danka wrote.<\/p>\n<p>Larychau was charged with participation in an \u201cextremist group\u201d and financing \u201cextremist activities.\u201d An ambulance was <a href=\"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/art-manager-aleh-larychau-taken-ill-during-court-hearing-ambulance-called\">called to the court hearing<\/a> for him.<\/p>\n<p>Aleh Larychau is an art manager, artist and organizer of the Urban Myths festival. He was <a href=\"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/art-manager-aleh-larychau-detained-in-criminal-case-viasna\">detained in November 2025<\/a>. The Interior Ministry identified Larychau as being <a href=\"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/interior-ministry-designates-viejsnoryja-as-extremist-formation\">involved<\/a> in the \u201cextremist group\u201d Viej\u0161noryja.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Art manager Aleh Larychau\u00a0has been sentenced to seven years in a penal colony, Alina Hiera\u0161\u010danka reported on Facebook. He was also ordered to pay a fine of 1,000 base units (45,000 rubles). Siamion Malashenkau was sentenced to four years in a penal colony and fined 500 base units (22,500 rubles). The KGB identified Malashenkau as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":119,"featured_media":508963,"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\/6af7467a6a526.jpg","width":1200,"height":630,"template":"691142dd","mode":"auto"},"_sharing_image_fieldset":{"dTVKfmI95PYT":"Art Manager Aleh Larychau Sentenced To Seven Years In Prison"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[142375,142339,142338,143127],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-603370","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-culture","category-main","category-news","category-society"],"acf":[],"wps_subtitle":"","permalink_manager":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/603370","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=603370"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/603370\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":603371,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/603370\/revisions\/603371"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/508963"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=603370"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=603370"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=603370"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}