Andrei Biasko

Date of birth: 17 December 1982

Date of detention: 11 November 2022

Charges indicted:

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

Sentence: 3 years

Penalty: restricted freedom in an open penal facility ("khimiya")

Judge: Volha Malashenka

Prison: Open correctional facility No. 21

Andrei Biasko was sentenced to 3 years of restriction of freedom with a referral to an open-type penal facility, for participating in the protests in 2020, under Art. 342 of the Criminal Code ('Active participation in group actions that grossly violate public order'). This decision was made in the Maskouski District Court of Minsk on July 18, 2022.

The Minsk City Court considered the appeal of the political prisoner against the sentence on October 14, 2022.

He has been serving his sentence since November 11, 2022.

Mail address: Open correctional facility No. 21. 247783, Mazyr, buĺvar Junactva, 24

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