Dzmitryi Ivanchanka

Prisoner

Date of birth: 30 August 1986

Date of detention: 11 March 2022

Charges indicted:

  • 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

Sentence: unknown

Judge: Yauhen Khatkevich

Prison: Penal colony No. 2

Notes: Health issues

On the list of “terrorists” (Money transfers are prohibited)

Dzmitryi Ivanchanka was detained on charges of ’insulting the President’, ‘insulting a government official’‘calling for sanctions’, and ‘inciting hatred’ under Articles 368, 369, Part 3 of Article 361, and Article 130 of the Criminal Code at the beginning of March 2022.

He is being held in pre-trial detention center.

Mail address: Penal colony No. 2. 213800, Babrujsk, vulica Sikorskaha 1

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