Aliaksandra Rybchyk

Date of birth: 16 June 1993

Date of detention: 26 October 2022

Charges indicted:

Art. 342 of the Criminal Code — Organization and preparation of actions that grossly violate public order, or active participation in them

Penalty: imprisonment in a general-security penal colony

Judge: Aliaksandr Supichenka

Prison: Pre-trial detention center No. 1

Aliaksandra Rybchyk is a manager at the Trans Solutions logistics company. The reason for the detention was photos on Tinder of her standin  on the roadway with a white-red-white flag during one of the protest marches in 2020. A post about the detention was published in one of the pro-government Telegram channels. In the 'penitential' video, she confirms her participation in the protests. First, she was placed in a temporary detention center. Later, a criminal case was opened against her under Art. 342 of the Criminal Code ('Active participation in group actions that grossly violate public order').

Mail address: Pre-trial detention center No. 1. 220030, Minsk, vulica Valadarskaha 2

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