Aliaksei Melnikau
Prisoner
Date of birth: 20 October 1993
Date of detention: 9 August 2020
Charges indicted:
- Part 2 of Art. 293 of the Criminal Code — Participation in riots
- Art. 295 of the Criminal Code — Unlawful acts against firearms, ammunition and explosives
- Art. 295-3 of the Criminal Code — Illegal actions in relation to objects which action is based on use of combustible substances
- Art. 411 — Malicious disobedience to the demands of administration of the correctional institution
Sentence: 7 years
Penalty: imprisonment in a high security prison
Judge: Volha Zarychniuk
Prison: Pre-trial detention center No. 8
Notes: Prison security level
Aliaksei Melnikau, a resident of Mahilioŭ, detained on 9 August 2020 and charged under part 2 of Article 293 of the Criminal Code (preparing to participate in mass riots) and Article 295 of the Criminal Code (illegal possession of weapons).
Melnikau's trial was closed. He pleaded guilty only in storage of weapons.
Aliaksei was found guilty on these two articles and sentenced to seven years' imprisonment.
At the end of December 2021, it became known about the transfer of Aliaksei from penal colony No. 22 to Investigative Prison No. 8.
On February 23, 2024, he was added to the "list of extremists".
