News from the prison called the Republic of Belarus, December 2021
from ABC Belarus
On 2 December Gayane Akhtiyan, mother of an anarchist Roman Khalilov, became a suspect in a criminal case. The proceedings were instituted upon art. 342 (part 1) of the Criminal Code (organisation and preparation of activities grossly violating the public order, or active participation in them). Previously, on 26 November, the apartment of Gayane Akhtiyan in Polack was searched, she was detained and initially arrested for 10 days for ‘insubordination to police’. On 2 December she was transferred from Polack to Minsk, and on 12 December her status changed from a suspect to an accused, and detention prolonged as an arrest. This case is a precedental one, an example of pressure on activists who moved abroad through their relatives who stay in Belarus. Khalilov lives in Poland, in Belarus a criminal case is open against him since 2020