Belarus Extradites Opposition Activist Egorov To Russia

Now the dissident is held in the pre-trial detention center in his home town of Toropets in the Russian Federation.

The Russian activist of the Yabloko party from the Tver region Vladimir Yegorov, who applied for political asylum in Ukraine, and then was taken out of the country by unknown persons, was later detained in the Belarusian capital, the Kastrychnitski district court of Minsk sentenced him to 2 days of administrative detention allegedly for swearing in public.

At the same time, Egorov himself was absent at the court session. The weekend that he spent in the pre-trial detention center were taken into consideration with regard to the term of his arrest. On August 2, Belarusian security forces transferred him to Russia, writes tut.by.

According to Yana Goncharova, a human rights activist from the Human Constanta, who was in contact with Yegorov, on July 29, he stopped answering calls.

Human rights activists came to the hostel, where they found only his car. The administrator of the hostel reported that KGB officers had taken Yegorov. On the eve, on July 28, he himself said that he was wanted in Russia.

On July 31, it turned out that he was tried in the Kastrychnitski district court of Minsk for petty hooliganism (Article 17.1 of the Administrative Code), but there was a break in the trial. When human rights activists came to the court, no one told them why and for how long the trial had been postponed.

Only in the morning on August 1, human rights activist Nasta Loika was able to find out from the judge who handled the process that he had made the decision in the activist’s case on July 31 in absentia.

On Wednesday morning, Yegorov's lawyer Svetlana Sidorkina reported that the activist was transferred to Russian law enforcement officers and was held in the pre-trial detention center in his home town of Toropets in the Russian Federation.

Vladimir Egorov is an opposition activist, who fought corruption in his home town. He was repeatedly threatened, someone broke windows in his house. And then the FSB started a criminal case against Yegorov for his post in social networks.

He tried to get political asylum in Ukraine, but after an unsuccessful attempt he was forced to leave for Belarus.