He lived and worked in Poland for a year and a half and returned to Belarus, where he was detained at the end of November 2022. According to the security forces, it was in Poland that he registered in the Peramoga plan. He also allegedly wrote messages threatening the security forces.
Political prisoners
Michael Valentinovich Mekeko
- 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 09.08.2023
6 years of imprisonment in colony under enhanced security conditions.Appeal 03.11.2023
unknown.Once the sentence takes effect, you can only write letters to the prisoner. Under Art. 85 of the Penal Code of Belarus, convicts cannot receive money transfers from anyone other than close relatives. Parcels are also only possible from relatives. If you want to help, support the family directly if this option is available on the prisoner's page.
Involved in repression
Ruslan Hikmetovich Mashadiev
MoreOverseers26 september 1981
- Place:
- IK-1
- Type:
- Head of the correctional facility
Who else is held in IK-1
- In custody:
- from ~09.12.2022 to present time
- Case categories:
- Return to Belarus
- Hometown:
- Gorki
- Birthday:
- 15.04.1993
- Mailing address:
- IK No. 1, 211445, Novopolotsk, st. Technical, 8
- Articles:
- Incitement of racial, national, religious or other social hostility or discordDeliberate actions oriented at inciting racial, national, religious or other social hostility or discord on the basis of racial, national, religious, linguistic or other social membershipOrganization of group actions grossly disturbing public orderViolence or threat against an representative of the authorities who performs official duties, or another person performing a social obligationsSlander against the President of the Republic of Belarus
- Marks:
- Financial transactions are blocked for people on the list, including money transfers to the detention centre in their name via bank or post.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
- 2022
~09.12.2022
Transfer
SIZO-1 — In custody
- 2023
09.08.2023
Trial outcome 09.08.2023
6 years of imprisonment in colony under enhanced security conditions
03.11.2023
Appeal 03.11.2023
unknown, Grodno Regional Court
27.11.2023
Transfer
IK-1 — In custody