Dzmitryi Kachanouski

in custody

Date of birth: 16 April 1973

Date of detention: 21 March 2023

Charges indicted:

Art. 361-2 of the Criminal Code — Financing the activities of an extremist group

Sentence: 3 years

Penalty: imprisonment in a general-security penal colony

Judge: Anzhela Kastsiukevich

Prison: Penal colony No. 1

Dzmitryi Kachanouski, an IT specialist, was arrested by the KGB officers on March 21, 2023. He was charged under Article 361-2 of the Criminal Code ('financing of activities of extremist formation') for his ten donations to organizations that support Belarusians.

Mail address: Penal colony No. 1. 211440, Navapolack, vulica Techničnaya 8

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