Aliaksei Mandzik
general practitioner, sentenced to 7 years of imprisonment
Date of birth: 12 April 1993
Date of detention: 8 November 2021
Charges indicted:
Part 1 of Art. 293 of the Criminal Code — Organization of riots
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. 368 of the Criminal Code — Insulting the President of the Republic of Belarus
Art. 130 of the Criminal Code — Incitement to hatred
Art. 309 of the Criminal Code — Intentional disrepair of a vehicle or communication lines
Sentence: 7 years
Penalty: imprisonment in a medium-security penal colony
Judge: Anatol Zayats
Prison: Penal colony No. 2
Aliaksei Mandzik was arrested in November 2021. He works at the 5th city polyclinic as the head of the prevention department and a general practitioner.
The reason for the arrest reported by GUBAZiK (Main Directorate for Combating Organized Crime and Corruption) was his subscription to "destructive Telegram channels" and posting "destructive and insulting comments" referring to police officers.
A pro-government resource published his "letter of repentance".
In June 2020, his case was tried in the Hrodna Regional Court by Judge Anatol Zayats. Mandzik was sentenced to seven years of imprisonment in a general-security penal colony.
Aliaksei Mandzik was included in the 'List of Belarusian citizens, foreign citizens, and stateless persons involved in extremist activities'.
