Aleh Rubets
fan of FC Volna, sentenced to 5 1/2 years in prison
Date of birth: 26 February 2002
Date of detention: 10 August 2020
Charges indicted:
Part 2 of Art. 293 of the Criminal Code — Participation in riots
Art. 411 — Malicious disobedience to the demands of administration of the correctional institution
Sentence: 5 1/2 years
Penalty: imprisonment in a high security prison
Judge: Yauhen Brehan
Prison: Pre-trial detention center No. 8
Statement on the status of a political prisoner
Godparent: Dirk Wiese, member of the German Bundestag
Aleh Rubets was detained in Pinsk on August 10, 2020. He was badly beaten during arrest. Rubets is a suspected of participation in "mass riots" (Art. 293 of the Criminal Code).
On April 30, 2021, Judge Yauhen Brehan of the Maskoŭski District Court of Brest sentenced the defendant to 5 1/2 years in a medium-security penal colony.
On May 12, 2022, during a disciplinary commission, Aleh was informed that a criminal case under Article 411 of the Criminal Code (malicious disobedience to the demands of the administration of a penal institution) had been brought against him. On June 10, 2022, Navapolack Judge Volha Balika ruled to transfer Aleh to a high-security prison for three years.
At the end of June, the political prisoner was transferred from Penal Colony No. 1 to Žodzina Prison No. 8.