A former volunteer of Viktar Babaryka's staff served a 2-year term in "chemistry" and was released.

was convicted under Article 341 Part 1 of the Criminal Code ("Organization or preparation of group actions that grossly violate public order").

Halatran ran a bar in the OK16 space.

He was detained on August 11.

Accused of participating in riots.

Halatran himself pleaded not guilty, claiming he left the headquarters for a 25-minute walk.

After the trial, when he was released from custody for a certain period before being sent to "chemistry", Halatran told about the torture of prisoners.

At the same time, he claimed that it was not Valadarka employees who were mocked, but GUBAZIK.

What is "chemistry" and "home chemistry"

"Chemistry"

- serving a sentence of restraint of liberty in an open correctional facility.

The expression appeared in the USSR in the postwar period, when the work of convicts began to be actively used on construction sites and harmful industries (including chemical plants).

There are 29 open correctional facilities in Belarus.

Many Belarusian oppositionists went through the punishment of "chemistry".

“Visitors could come to me, we met and talked in the yard of the special commandant's office.

I used my mobile phone, received letters, I wrote notes on "chemistry" ... Several times I was allowed to go to my parents, "- said

about his" chemistry "in the Pruzhany district, where he worked in a local farm.

"Chemistry" often ends in the detention of prisoners who were sentenced to long terms of imprisonment, but through good behavior deserved relief.

Punishment by "restriction of liberty" can also be served in the so-called

- if the sentence uses the wording

. "

In fact, it is a mixture of "chemistry", which provides for compulsory forced labor, and serving a suspended sentence if the convict is at home, but under regular close police control.

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