Aliaksandr Kutas
served full term, released
Former prisoner
Date of birth: 15 June 1962
Date of detention: 1 December 2021
Charges indicted:
- Art. 342-2 of the Criminal Code — Repeated violation of the order of organization or holding of mass events
Sentence: 1 year
Penalty: imprisonment in a general-security penal colony
Date of release: 21 September 2022
Judge: Yuliya Blizniuk
Cases: Protests in Minsk
Aliaksandr Kutas is a homeless man from Minsk who was detained under Article 342-2 of the Criminal Code (Repeated violation of the order of organizing or holding mass events).
Aliaksandr Kutas served 10 arrests (at least 130 days behind bars) under Art. 24.23 of the Administrative Code (Unauthorized picketing) in 2021. Protocols were drawn up for his posters, on which the requests for help were written. As far as human rights defenders know, Aliaksandr Kutas spent 22 years in prison.
On March 2, the court of Frunzienski district of Minsk sentenced Aliaksandr to one year in a general-regime penal colony.
Kutas was released on September 21, 2022.
