Aliaksandr Bialou
anarchist, sentenced to 5 years
Prisoner
Date of birth: 1 September 1996
Date of detention: 29 July 2021
Charges indicted:
- Art. 342 of the Criminal Code — Organization and preparation of actions that grossly violate public order, or active participation in them
- Art. 361-1 of the Criminal Code — Creation of an extremist formation, or participation in it
Sentence: 5 years
Penalty: imprisonment in a general-security penal colony
Judge: Alena Misnik
Prosecutor: Aliaksandr Ramanovich
Prison: Penal colony No. 22
Groups: Activists
Cases: Protests in Minsk
Statement on the status of a political prisoner
Godparent: Lisa Badum, member of the German Bundestag
Aliaksandr Bialou is an anarchist detained on July 29, 2021 in Minsk. His apartment was searched after arrest.
Bialou was eventually transferred to the pre-trial detention center and charged under Art. 342 of the Criminal Code (group actions grossly violating public order).
On April 22, 2022 the Minsk Regional Court sentenced the anarchists and political prisoners. Judge Alena Misnik found them guilty under part 1 of article 342 of the Criminal Code and part 3 of article 361-1 and pronounced the following sentences: Aliaksandr Bialou, Yauhen Rubashka, and Artsiom Salavei, born in 1996, each received five years of imprisonment in a general-security penal colony, Artsiom Salavei, born in 1995, received four and a half years of imprisonment in a general-security penal colony.
Criminal case against four anarchists to be considered in private
Anarchist political prisoners sentenced in Minsk
