Aleh Khramykh
taxi driver, sentenced to 3 1/2 years of imprisonment
Prisoner
Date of birth: 23 May 1984
Date of detention: 5 April 2022
Charges indicted:
- Art. 361-4 of the Criminal Code — Promoting extremist activities
Sentence: 3 1/2 years
Penalty: imprisonment in a medium-security penal colony
Judge: Anatol Sotnikau
Prison: Penal colony No. 22
Groups: Activists
Notes: War in Ukraine
Statement on the status of a political prisoner
Godparent: Jacob Mark,Member of the Danish Parliament
Aleh Khramykh is a taxi driver and Red Cross volunteer. He is charged with ‘promoting extremist activities’ under Article 361-4 of the Criminal Code for "posting three messages on the Internet that a plane was flying over Homieĺ, showing the time and applied geolocation. And then added a video of Russian vehicles moving around".
On September 7, 2022, the Homieĺ Regional Court found Khramykh guilty and sentenced him to 3.5 years of imprisonment in a medium-security penal colony.
