Former political prisonersForced emigration

Anastasiia Vitalyeuna Patsekhina

Dissidentby since
Viasna since

Anastasia was arrested in November 2021 as part of a criminal case opened under the article "organizing and preparing actions that grossly violate public order, or active participation in them" and placed in pretrial detention pending trial.

In May 2022, she was found guilty of participating in a protest that took place in Minsk in the fall of 2020 and sentenced to restricted freedom and sent to an open correctional facility.

Left Belarus before starting to serve her sentence.

In December 2024, a court hearing in absentia was held as part of a special proceeding on the issue of replacing the restriction of freedom with imprisonment in a penal colony.

Sentences

Trial outcome 10.05.2022
2 years 6 months restrictions of freedom with referral to an open-type correctional facility.
Regime change trial 30.12.2024
unknown years of imprisonment in colony under general regime conditions (trial in absentia).

Involved in repression

Sergey Aleksandrovich Katzer
Sergey Aleksandrovich Katzer
Judges25 december 1982
Place:
court of the Moscow district of Minsk
Type:
Court of First Instance
Date:
10.05.2022
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Elena Vyacheslavovna Kaptsevich
Elena Vyacheslavovna Kaptsevich
Judges11 june 1978
Place:
court of Zavodskoy district of Minsk
Type:
Court of First Instance
Date:
30.12.2024
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Andrey Mikhailovich Cedric
Andrey Mikhailovich Cedric
Overseers20 april 1978
Place:
SIZO-1
Type:
Head of the correctional facility
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Anastasiia Vitalyeuna Patsekhina
In custody:
Hometown:
Minsk
Birthday:
16.01.1999
Articles:
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Timeline

  1. 2021
  2. 11.09.2021

    Transfer

    SIZO-1 — In custody

  3. 2022
  4. 10.05.2022

    Trial outcome 10.05.2022

    2 years 6 months restrictions of freedom with referral to an open-type correctional facility, court of the Moscow district of Minsk

  5. 10.05.2022

    Status change

    Released pending appeal

  6. ~14.05.2022

    Status change

    Forced emigration

  7. 2024
  8. 30.12.2024

    Regime change trial 30.12.2024

    unknown years of imprisonment in colony under general regime conditions (trial in absentia), court of Zavodskoy district of Minsk