On June 24, 2024, a hearing was held under Part 2 of Article 19.11 of the Code of Administrative Offenses of the Republic of Belarus: Distribution, production, storage, and transportation of information products containing calls for extremist activity or promoting such activity. As of April 2025, he was in Pretrial Detention Center No. 1. The prosecution may be politically motivated.
Political prisoners
Alexander Alexandrovich Makhnach
- Dissidentby since
- Date of recognition as a political prisoner by Dissidentby
- Viasna since
- Date of recognition as a political prisoner by the Viasna Human Rights Centre
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Sentences
Trial outcome 22.10.2025
4 years of imprisonment in colony under enhanced security conditions.Once the sentence takes effect, you can only write letters to the prisoner. Under Art. 85 of the Penal Code of Belarus, convicts cannot receive money transfers from anyone other than close relatives. Parcels are also only possible from relatives. If you want to help, support the family directly if this option is available on the prisoner's page.
Involved in repression
Andrey Mikhailovich Cedric
MoreOverseers20 april 1978
- Place:
- SIZO-1 Kolyadichi
- Type:
- Head of the correctional facility
Eugene Sergeevich Hitrik
MoreOverseers16 november 1982
- Place:
- SIZO-1 Kolyadichi
- Type:
- Head of the correctional facility
Who else is held in IK-3
- In custody:
- from 15.04.2025 to present time
- Case categories:
- The Gayun Case
- Hometown:
- Uzda
- Birthday:
- 19.06.1987
- Mailing address:
- IK №3
- Articles:
- Calls for actions aimed at the detriment of the external security of the Republic of BelarusPromoting extremist activitiesPromotion of extremist activity committed repeatedly or by a group of persons
- Marks:
- Financial transactions are blocked for people on the list, including money transfers to the detention centre in their name via bank or post.Control of a person's financial transactions, restrictions on crossing the Belarusian border, a 5-year ban on military service and public office after the conviction is expunged, etc.
Timeline
- 2025
15.04.2025
Transfer
SIZO-1 Kolyadichi — In custody
22.10.2025
Trial outcome 22.10.2025
4 years of imprisonment in colony under enhanced security conditions
24.11.2025
Transfer
IK-3 — In custody