Malady
Front activist Artsyom Dubski will serve his one-year sentence in Mahilyou's
minimum security labor camp, said the group's press office. Dubski
was transferred to the Mahilyou correctional institution on August 28, his
mother said.
On July 7, Dubski
was sentenced to one year in a minimum security correctional institution on a
charge of avoiding serving a “restricted freedom” sentence.
Dubski is one
of the young people who were prosecuted and convicted over participation in an
unsanctioned demonstration that was staged in Minsk on January 10, 2008.
In April 2008, he received his two-year "restricted freedom"
sentence, which required him to stay at home between 10 p.m. and 6 a.m. on weekdays and never
leave his home city. Criminal proceedings were instituted against Dubski later
in the year over his failure to meet these requirements.
In October
2008, Dubski moved to Ukraine
to apply for political asylum in that country, but he later withdrew his
application and returned to Belarus
after learning that authorities were putting pressure on his mother and had
taken away her adopted children.
The young man was arrested at the Homyel railroad station on February 13, 2009,
when he was traveling from Russia
to Minsk.
