Aliaksandr Veliasnitski
former military officer, sentenced to 2 1/2 years of imprisonment
Date of birth: 14 March 1978
Date of detention: 29 September 2021
Charges indicted:
Art. 130 of the Criminal Code — Incitement to hatred
Sentence: 2 1/2 years
Penalty: imprisonment in a general-security penal colony
Prison sentence start date: 20 December 2022
Date of release: 22 August 2023
Judge: Andrei Vasiliuk
Prosecutor: Tatsiana Tsybulia
Aliaksandr Veliasnitski is a former military officer who condemned the violence by security forces after the 2020 elections.
He was detained in Stolin for publishing comments on the Internet in connection with the deaths of IT worker Andrei Zeltser and KGB agent Dzmitry Fedasiuk.
On September 26, 2022, the Brest Regional Court found Veliasnitski guilty and sentenced him to 2.5 years of imprisonment in a general security penal colony.
