Eduard, who graduated from BGEU with a degree in Economics and Business Management and managed the crowdfunding platforms Ulej and MolaMola, as well as his father, Viktor Babariko's, initiative group, was detained on June 18, 2020, while en route to the Central Election Commission to submit signatures. He spent over three years in detention without trial and was convicted of "organizing mass unrest" and "tax evasion."
In July 2024, he was re-sentenced to two years in prison for "disobeying the prison administration." He was then transferred to the maximum-security penal colony No. 11 in Volkovysk. During Eduard's five months of detention there, the prison administration initiated a second case under Part 2 of Article 411 of the Criminal Code. The political prisoner's trial took place on February 20, 2025, in the Volkovysk District Court.
