Babaryko sentenced to 14 years in prison
On 6 July 2021 Belarus's Supreme Court found Viktor Babaryko, a former presidential hopeful who had sought to challenge Alexander Lukashenko, guilty of bribery and money laundering and sentenced him to 14 years in a high-security penal colony.
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On 6 July 2021 Belarus's Supreme Court found Viktor Babaryko, a former presidential hopeful who had sought to challenge Alexander Lukashenko, guilty of bribery and money laundering and sentenced him to 14 years in a high-security penal colony. Amnesty International called the verdict politically motivated and declared him a prisoner of conscience.
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Viktor Babaryko
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Babaryko sentenced to 14 years in prison. Actor role on this event; contribution size permanently_blocked (no sourced fraction). Contribution size is permanently_blocked (no sourced fraction); provisional 0.4 stored because contributions.size is NOT NULL.
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- 1.amnesty.org — sourceamnesty.org · verified
- 2.bbc.comchecked 2026-10-15 GET 200, keywords: babaryko+14 years · verified
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Factrail. (2026). Babaryko sentenced to 14 years in prison. Factrail. https://factrail.ai/facts/babaryko-sentenced-14-years-2021-07-06
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Accessed 15 October 2026.
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