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Eduard Palchys Turns 26 Today

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Eduard Palchys Turns 26 Today
PHOTO: TUT.BY

The blogger has been released from custody right in the court hall, on his birthday.

The sentence to blogger Eduard Palchys (Jhon Silver, founder of the website 1863x.com) has been pronounced in the Minsk city court today.

The prosecutor demanded 3 years and a half in prison for Eduard Palchys, but in the end the 1863x.com founder has been sentenced to 1 year 9 months of “house-based forcible labor” without sending to the specialized facility.

After the sentence was pronounced, Eduard Palchys has been released from the metallic enclosure to the shouts of glee of all the present in the court hall. The people have chanted “Long Live Belarus!” and unfolded white-red-white flags.

It is worth mentioning that Palchys has been released actually on his birthday. The blogger was born on October 28, 1990 in the town of Lida, Hrodna region. In 2008, the pupil of the 11th grade Eduard Palchys got the second place at the republican academic competition and entered the historical faculty of the Belarusian State University.

Eduard Palchys stood trial for his writings: the court found “extremism” in nine of them, and “distribution of pornography” – in one.

The criminal case against Eduard Palchys was started back in 2015. He left for Ukraine that autumn, but then, according to his wife, he decided to return to Belarus. He presumed he might be arrested at the Ukrainian-Belarusian border so he went home via Russia, where he was detained in the end.

On January 23, 2016 Palchys was placed in the pre-trial detention center in Bryansk region, Russia. In June, he was extradited to Belarus.

The Belarusian patriots have spent all the time of his trial under the Minsk city court walls, holding the action demanding to release the blogger.

PHOTO: TUT.BY
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