Nikolay Georgievich Kozlov

In the Leninsky District Court of Minsk on August 6, the chairman of the United Civil Party (UCP), a member of the main staff of the Coordination Council, Nikolai Kozlov, was sentenced to three months of arrest. He was found guilty under Part 1 of Art. 407 of the Criminal Code for disclosing data in a criminal case against the Coordination Council, but the specific episodes of the charges are unknown, since the trial was held behind closed doors. Released on March 26, 2022 at the end of his sentence. At the end of July 2022, he was detained again. According to the indictment, on August 23, 2020, Kozlov, Kovaleva and Alekseeva “publicly shouted slogans, applauded loudly, were on the roadway, thereby blocking and impeding the movement of transport in Minsk, including the city passenger transport Minsktrans.”

The trial of the UCP members began on November 1, 2022 in the Pervomaisky district court of Minsk. On November 3, Judge Anastasia Kulik sentenced the political prisoner to two and a half years in prison.

On January 31, 2023, the Minsk City Court considered the appeal of the UCP leaders. The sentence remained unchanged, and the complaint was not satisfied.

In mid-February, the political prisoner was transferred to Mogilev penal colony No. 15. Immediately after quarantine, Nikolai was placed in a punishment cell until March 26.

At the beginning of May 2023, the political prisoner’s mother died. Nikolai was not released from the colony for the funeral.

At the beginning of July 2023, Nikolai’s associates said that the political prisoner was hospitalized with bronchitis.

In mid-December 2023, it became known that the politician was placed in the FCT for 2 months in November.

07/22/2024 released , having fully served the sentence imposed by the court.