Andrei was detained in the spring of 2025 and later convicted of "assisting extremist activity" in a criminal case opened after Belarusian security forces gained access to the chats of a bot used by the Gayun monitoring project, where users were transmitting information about Russian troop movements.
Former political prisonersProbation
Andrei Henadzevich Kabiak
- 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 21.08.2025
2 years 6 months restrictions of freedom without referral to an open-type correctional facility.Involved in repression
Victor Anatolyevich Rupeka
MoreOverseers27 december 1979
- Place:
- SIZO-7
- Type:
- Head of the correctional facility
- In custody:
- from 11.03.2025 to 21.08.2025
- Case categories:
- The Gayun Case
- Hometown:
- Baranovichi
- Birthday:
- 28.10.1987
- Was held in:
- SIZO-7, Brest, Sovetskih Pogranichnikov 37, 224030
- Articles:
- Promoting extremist activitiesPromotion of extremist activity committed repeatedly or by a group of persons
- Marks:
- 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
11.03.2025
Transfer
IVS Baranovichi — In custody
18.03.2025
Transfer
SIZO-7 — In custody
21.08.2025
Trial outcome 21.08.2025
2 years 6 months restrictions of freedom without referral to an open-type correctional facility, Brest Regional Court
21.08.2025
Status change
Probation