Former political prisonersReleased

Ihar Paulavich Buzuk

Dissidentby since
Viasna since

Igor was detained while attempting to leave Belarus as part of a criminal case opened under the article "Desecration of state symbols." He was accused of placing a white-red-white flag on a flagpole at the Mound of Glory in July 2021, above the red-and-green one.

He was released in May 2023, having fully served his sentence.

Sentences

Trial outcome 13.10.2021

2 years of imprisonment in colony under general regime conditions.

Involved in repression

Paul Ivanovich Kazakov

Overseers11 june 1977

Place:: Turma №1
Type:: Head of the correctional facility

Alexey Valerievich Lazarenko

OthersOverseers29 june 1975

Place:: IK-15
Type:: Head of the correctional facility

Ivan Leonidovich Ignatenko

Overseers25 april 1984

Place:: IK-15
Type:: Correctional officer

Alesya Petrovna Brinevets

Overseers22 january 1980

Place:: IK-15
Type:: Correctional officer

Ilya Nikolaevich Kislyakov

Overseers25 december 1994

Place:: IK-15
Type:: Correctional officer

Artem Viktorovich Veselov

OverseersOthers7 august 1984

Place:: IK-15
Type:: Correctional officer

Denis Aleksandrovich Kovalev

Overseers18 october 2026

Place:: IK-15
Type:: Correctional officer

In custody:
Hometown:: Hrodna
Birthday:: 13.10.1979
Was held in:: IK №15, 212013, Mogilev, p/o Veyno, Slavgorodskoye shosse 183
Articles:
Groups:: Entrepreneurs

Timeline

2021
~28.07.2021
Transfer
Turma №1 — In custody
13.10.2021
Trial outcome 13.10.2021
2 years of imprisonment in colony under general regime conditions, court of the Oktyabrsky district of Grodno
~01.12.2021
Transfer
IK-15 — In custody
2023
25.05.2023
Status change
Released