Expand Belarus: driving and arrests sections, words · Changelog

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Belarus countries/by.yaml

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Belarus Administrative Offences Code — Article 18.15, drug-driving and refusal (zakony-by) Belarus Criminal Code — Article 317-1, repeat drug-driving (zakony-by) Human Rights Without Frontiers — Belarus: the Girls-328 (23 December 2024) Wiktionary — трава (slang: a smokable narcotic) Wiktionary — анаша (wild hemp; narcotic from it) 15 unchanged

words

word Трава · lang Russian · meaning slang for a smokable narcotic · sources ru-trava, word Анаша · lang Russian · meaning wild hemp; the narcotic made from it · sources ru-anasha

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Any drug-induced state counts: driving while intoxicated by drugs, or refusing the examination, brings an administrative fine of 200 base values, BYN9,000 at the 2026 base, with a five-year driving ban.[@koap1815, base26] Repeating it within a year of the administrative penalty is criminal: corrective work for up to two years, short custody or restriction of liberty up to two years, plus a ban and a fine.[@uk317]

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koap1815, base26, uk317

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No recent official arrest totals were found in reachable sources. The documented pattern is severe punishment of small cases: underage girls convicted under Article 328 for small non-violent drug offences — 17 detained or convicted in 2021 and seven more by early 2022, according to Nash Dom via Human Rights Without Frontiers.[@hrwf24]

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hrwf24

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 - Left: 1930s/40s/50s/60s empty (Estado Novo-era sources thin); 1993 decree article still open
   (ranked candidate).
-## by — pending
+## by (Belarus) — committed
+- New driving (zero-status; 18.15 + 317-1, zakony-by verified) and arrests (no official totals;
+  Girls-328 pattern, HRWF-verified) sections; words (Трава, Анаша; ru.wiktionary-verified).
+- Audit 0/0. Review build still blocked by others' files — will verify page once clear.
+- Left: 1940s/50s/80s empty; 1934 article covered by the same-decree Ukraine article (not
+  duplicated); 1974 possession-crime article still open.
 ## rs — pending
 ## bg — pending