An activist of the "Country for Life" and a member of Svetlana Tikhanovskaya's team, Alexander has been repeatedly detained under political administrative articles. He was detained along with another activist, Oleg Boroznaya, who were known to have been under surveillance since the fall of 2020. Alexander was subsequently convicted on fabricated drug-related criminal charges.
Political prisoners
Alexander Mateyuk
- 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 05.10.2021
9 years of imprisonment in colony under enhanced security conditions, 100 basic values fine, 1108 rubles of compensation.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
Denis Vladimirovich Alekseenko
MoreJudges30 july 1985
- Place:
- court of Zheleznodorozhny district of Vitebsk
- Type:
- Court of First Instance
- Date:
- 05.10.2021
Alexey Valerievich Lazarenko
MoreOthersOverseers29 june 1975
- Place:
- IK-15
- Type:
- Head of the correctional facility
Who else is held in IK-15
- In custody:
- from 09.02.2021 to present time
- Hometown:
- Vitebsk
- Birthday:
- 03.05.1982
- Mailing address:
- IK №15, 212013, Mogilev, p/o Veyno, Slavgorodskoye shosse 183
- Articles:
- Illegal trafficking of narcotic drugs, psychotropic substances, their precursors and analoguesOrganizing or maintaining drug dens
- Groups:
- Activists
Timeline
- 2021
09.02.2021
Transfer
SIZO-2 — In custody
05.10.2021
Trial outcome 05.10.2021
9 years of imprisonment in colony under enhanced security conditions, 100 basic values fine, 1108 rubles of compensation, court of Zheleznodorozhny district of Vitebsk
- 2022
~14.01.2022
Transfer
IK-15 — In custody