Vitaly is a political strategist living in the United States. He came to Gomel to visit his parents and was arrested on July 29, 2020, after which he was placed in pretrial detention. According to the charges brought against him, Vitaly was accused of organizing and preparing group actions that grossly violated public order during a signature collection picket held by the initiative group for the nomination of Svetlana Tikhanovskaya as a presidential candidate on May 29, 2020, in Grodno. Thus, he became one of the defendants in the so-called "Tikhanovsky case."
On October 19, 2020, he was released from custody, but remained under investigation, and on October 27, he left Belarus.
Polina was released from liability under Article 86 of the Criminal Code. This article establishes the procedure for releasing a person from criminal liability while subjecting them to administrative liability under certain conditions: the person committed a minor or moderate crime for the first time and made amends for the damage, and administrative penalties are sufficient to rectify the damage.
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