Aliaksandr Sysoyeu

Date of birth: 20 October 1984

Date of detention: 5 July 2023

Charges indicted:

Article 361-3 of the Criminal Code — Participation or preparing to participate in hostilities on foreign soil by a Republic of Belarus citizen

Sentence: 5 years

Penalty: imprisonment in a medium-security penal colony

Judge: Ruslana Sianko

Prosecutor: Aliaksandr Bohush

Prison: Pre-trial detention center No. 7

Aliaksandr Sysoyeu was detained on July 5, 2023.

He was accused of transferring $12.91 from a Belarusian card to the Kalinoŭski Regiment. The state prosecution classified it as Part 2 of Article 361-3 of the Criminal Code, which pertains to the financing of citizens of the Republic of Belarus to participate in the territory of a foreign state in an armed formation of one of the opposing parties, in armed conflicts or military actions.

On February 14, 2024, Judge Ruslana Sianko sentenced Sysoyeu to five years in a medium-security penal colony

      On March 1, 2024, the Ministry of Internal Affairs added him to the list of extremists.

 
Mail address: Pre-trial detention center No. 7. 224030, Brest, vulica Savieckich pamiežnikaŭ 37

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