Persecuted for political reasonsPersecution of emigrants

Vadzim Mikhajlavich Kabanchuk

Former deputy commander of the Kastus Kalinovsky Regiment, representative of the Joint Transitional Cabinet for Defense.

He was an activist in the youth opposition organizations "Young Front" and "Edge." In 2001, Kabanchuk participated in the public commission investigating the kidnappings of prominent Belarusian opposition figures Yury Zakharenko and Vladimir Gonchar, businessman Aleksey Krasovsky, and journalist Dmitry Zavadsky.

In 2002, Kabanchuk sought political asylum in Belgium. He was active in the life of the Belarusian diaspora. He was one of the organizers of the "Belarusian-European Union" in Belgium. Several years later, he returned to Belarus. During the 2010 presidential election, he was an activist for the campaign of Vitaly Rymasheuski, the Belarusian Christian Democracy candidate for the presidency of the Republic of Belarus. He participated in the 2010 Square.

He left to fight in Ukraine in 2014.

Sentences

Trial outcome date unknown
25 years of imprisonment in colony under enhanced security conditions, 700 basic values fine (trial in absentia).
Vadzim Mikhajlavich Kabanchuk
Hometown:
Babruysk
Birthday:
29.11.1974
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Timeline

  1. 2014
  2. ~15.05.2014

    Status change

    Persecution of emigrants

  3. 2026
  4. ~28.01.2026

    Trial outcome date unknown

    25 years of imprisonment in colony under enhanced security conditions, 700 basic values fine (trial in absentia), Minsk City Court