Provocateur Matvei Bialyai, Who Returned to Belarus, Assigned Compulsory Treatment
The man was detained as part of a criminal case.
A year ago, propagandists claimed that activist Matvei Bialyai was deported from Lithuania to Belarus, after which he was detained.
As human rights defenders from "Viasna" learned, the man was detained as part of a criminal case, but only after he himself returned to Belarus. Under several political articles, he was assigned compulsory treatment.
According to the prosecution's version, on March 3, 2021, Bialyai struck the doors of the Government House with a hammer, after which he was detained. Three months later, the court assigned him compulsory psychiatric treatment. Later, the man ended up in Lithuania and claimed that he had allegedly managed to escape from the institution.
On the night of April 20, 2023, he threw a homemade incendiary device onto the territory of the Belarusian embassy in Vilnius.
He was arrested, later sentenced to 11 months of imprisonment, which he served while awaiting trial. After that, he left Lithuania and lived in various EU countries, including attempting to obtain asylum in Germany, but was rejected.
Until March 8, 2025, Bialyai actively maintained social media, after which he disappeared from the public space. Soon his name disappeared from the wanted persons database of Belarus and Russia. Propagandists claimed that he was deported from Lithuania to Belarus. But, as human rights defenders from "Viasna" learned, he himself made the decision to return to Belarus. On March 10, 2025, Bialyai was detained in Belarus as part of a criminal case initiated against him back in 2023, when he was in exile.
In the autumn of 2025, a trial took place. He was accused under Part 1, Article 342 of the Criminal Code (active participation in group actions that grossly violate public order), Part 4, Article 16, Article 341 of the Criminal Code (incitement to damage property or defile buildings), and Part 1, Article 368 of the Criminal Code (insulting Lukashenka).
As a result, the court of the Barysaŭ district assigned him compulsory treatment in a psychiatric inpatient facility with intensified supervision.
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