Former political prisonersReleased

Ilya Eduardovich Voitekhovich

Dissidentby
Viasna

The 36 year old youngest son of the legendary Belarusian businessman from the village of Komarovo, Eduard Voitekhovich, was traveling to his father's funeral from Riga and was arrested by employees of the Main Directorate for Combating Organized Crime and Corruption right at the border.

He tried to enter Belarus on January 14, 2022, the Belarusian border guards did not let him go for a long time, and then the staff of the Main Directorate for Combating Organized Crime and Corruption arrived from Minsk and took him to the detention center on the «Okrestina».

According to human rights activists, he will be released at the beginning of October 2023 upon expiration of his sentence.

Sentences

Trial outcome

2 years of imprisonment in a penal colony.

Involved in repression

Andrey Mikhailovich Cedric
Andrey Mikhailovich Cedric
Overseers20 april 1978
Place:
SIZO-1
Type:
Head of the correctional facility
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Dmitry Rudolfovich Shinvize
Dmitry Rudolfovich Shinvize
Overseers9 january 1981
Place:
IK-2
Type:
Correctional officer
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Ilya Eduardovich Voitekhovich
In custody:
Case categories:
Return to Belarus
Hometown:
Ive
Birthday:
26.10.1985
Was held in:
IK №2, 213800, Bobruysk, ul. Sikorskogo, 1
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