A criminal case against the priest Vladislav Bohamolnikov was opened according to Art.

342 of the Criminal Code for alleged "participation in mass riots", he was detained as a suspect, the Telegram channel "Christian Vision" reports.

The priest was never released after the seventh arrest, the term of which ended on December 9.

In total, since August 31, he spent 100 days in the detention center in Akrestsyn.

The priest was kept in an overcrowded cell in the detention center on Akrestsyn, without access to medical care, without transfers or correspondence.

Now he has a bad cough that hasn't gone away since his first arrest, when he was sick with the coronavirus.

On December 1, the group "Christian Vision" made a statement about the torture used against the priest in the TsIP in Akrestin.

On August 31, security forces detained Uladislav Bagamolnikov by breaking down the door of his apartment.

On September 1, he was sentenced to 14 days of arrest, at the end of which - another 15. The next day after the second trial, the third was held, where he was again sentenced to 15 days allegedly for reposting "extremist materials" in the media.

The fourth trial took place on October 14, the fifth on October 29.

Then there were the sixth and seventh.

Uladzislau Bohamolnikov is a clergyman of the Epiphany church in Minsk, the head of the Church-historical museum of the Belarusian Orthodox Church, a member of the diocesan court of the Minsk diocese, a teacher of the Minsk Theological Academy.

This priest is known as a supporter of changes in Belarus.

He announced a hunger strike in support of the political prisoner Svoboda journalist Ihar Losik, and on "Peramen Square" in Minsk he sent a lithic memorial to the murdered artist

.

In addition, the priest helped Ukrainian refugees, on this basis the propaganda started persecution against him allegedly for collecting funds for USU.

After Russia's attack on Ukraine, Vladislav Bohomolnikov was among the Orthodox priests who made an appeal against the war.

Human rights defenders recognized Vladislav Bohamolnikov as a political prisoner.

This is already the second Orthodox priest-political prisoner: the persecution also affected the priest Serhiy Razanovich.