On March 31, the Minsk City Court began to try IT specialist

Ruslan Zavadich

according to Part 2 of Art.

361-2 of the Criminal Code (Financing of extremist activities), writes the human rights center "Viasna".

According to information from human rights activists, he is charged with two donations to BY_help in August 2020 in the amount of about $50, as well as a donation to

Valery Tsapkala

in the amount of about $25.

The case is being considered by judge

Zhanna Brisina

.

Ruslan Zavadich was detained at the end of October 2022.

At first, he was kept in Akrestin prison for some time, and then he was transferred to SIZA-1 in Volodarskyi.

According to the case file, Ruslan made the donation through the Belarusian exchange in bitcoins.

But at the time of the money transfers, neither BY_help nor Tsapkala were recognized as "extremist formations".

According to his LinkedIn profile, Ruslan has been working at Netcracker for the past six years.

Previously, he was a volunteer of "Protection of Birds of the Fatherland" for some time.

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