A citizen of Russia, has lived in Belarus since the age of 6, an individual entrepreneur.
He is accused of setting fire to the car of the head of the Department of Corrections and puncturing tires in 39 trolleybuses in Gomel.
He was detained on November 5, 2021. He was in the pre-trial detention center of the State Security Committee in Minsk. On December 13, 2021, he was transferred to pre-trial detention center-3.
I was an observer at the last presidential election. Engaged in civic activism. In 2019, he opposed the development. Does not drink, does not smoke, has a heightened sense of justice, as his relatives say. Two juvenile children remained at large.
On January 3, 2022, Andrei was tried again, already under four criminal articles, including for promoting extremist activities and inciting other social hostility. The verdict was announced behind closed doors, so the details of the case and the position of the political prisoner are unknown. As a result, he was added to 15 years of imprisonment for another year and eight months in a penal colony of strict regime. In addition, the political prisoner received a penalty of 32 000 BYN.
