Aliaksandr Sumar

sentenced to 9 years in enhanced security penal colony

Prisoner

Date of birth: 7 March 1982

Date of detention: 27 July 2022

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 of the Criminal Code — Calls for actions aimed at causing harm to the national security of the Republic of Belarus
  • Art. 369 of the Criminal Code — Insulting a government official
  • Art. 361-1 of the Criminal Code — Creation of an extremist formation, or participation in it
  • Art. 367 of the Criminal Code — Slander against the President of the Republic of Belarus

Sentence: 9 years

Penalty: imprisonment in a medium-security penal colony

Judge: Vera Filonik

Prosecutor: Aliaksandr Bohush

Prison: Penal colony No. 3

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Aliaksandr Sumar was detained on July 27, 2022, and placed in custody in remand prison #7 in Brest. It is known that in 2006, Sumar worked as a forensic expert at the district police department in Luniniec, Brest region.

Sumar was convicted under five articles of the Criminal Code:

  • Part 1 of Art. 361-1 ('Leading an extremist formation')
  • Part 1 of Art. 342 ('Training persons to participate in group actions grossly breaching public order')
  • Part 2 of Art. 367 ('Defamation against the president of Belarus')
  • Art. 369 ('Insulting a a government official')
  • and Part 3 of Art. 361 ('Calls for sanctions and other actions aimed at harming national security of Belarus on the media or Internet')

On February 9, 2023, the Brest Regional Court found Aliaksandr Sumar guilty under all of the above articles of the Criminal Code. Judge Vera Filonik sentenced him to nine years of imprisonment in an enhanced security penal colony. The case was tried behind closed doors. Prosecutor Aliaksandr Bohush supported the state accusation.

Mail address: Penal colony No. 3. 211322, Viciebsk region, Vićba

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