A California man charged with assaulting police and using a metal barricade as a battering ram in the Jan. 6, 2021 breach of the U.S. Capitol has been granted refugee status by Belarus, according to Belarusian state-owned television BelTA. The Belarusian Telegraph Agency reported on Twitter that Evan Neumann, received refugee status in the country. “The document was handed to him in the Department of Citizenship and Migration of the Internal Affairs Directorate of the Brest Regional Executive Committee on March 22, 2022,” the agency wrote. Neumann fled the United States and took refuge in Belarus on Feb. 16, 2021. He was indicted in December on 14 criminal counts in the Jan. 6 breach, expanding on charges originally contained in a criminal complaint filed against Neumann in March last year. A federal arrest warrant was issued for Neumann in December. Charges against him include engaging in physical violence in a restricted …