Last week, Poland was deported from Belarus Robert TwilightWho spent the last 3 years in prison there. 56-year-old Pole was not a tourist – he moved to Belarus in the 1990s, where he founded a household and worked as a manager in a large food company. He was arrested and convicted for “disgracing the president of Belarus” and “insulting the typical of the authorities”. And already in a severe penal colony in Nowopolock, he was added to the alleged extremist list. The conviction was served in full and immediately after its release was placed under convoy to the border.
He is not the only countryman convicted of politics by the Lukashenko regime. The best known is, of course, born in Grodzieńsk and possessing Belarusian citizenship Andrzej Poczobut, an activist of the criminalized Union of Poles who turned 52 on 16 April and was already his 5th birthday behind bars. He was arrested in March 2021 and was subsequently sentenced to 8 years in prison for alleged "inciting hatred" and "calling for action to harm the state". The punishment is besides served in the notorious colony in Nowopolock, where the most dangerous “political” are sent.
