Dzmitry Sluk

sentenced to 8 1/2 years of imprisonment

Prisoner

Date of birth: 13 July 1988

Date of detention: 10 February 2023

Charges indicted:

  • Art. 290-1 of the Criminal Code — Financing of terrorist activities

Sentence: 8 1/2 years

Penalty: imprisonment in a general-security penal colony

Judge: Dzmitryi Astapenka

Prison: Prison No. 4

Cases: Donations

Notes: Prison security level

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

Dzmitry Sluk is 34 years old. He is from Babrujsk, Mahilioŭ region. He was charged under Article 290-1 of the Criminal Code ('Financing of terrorist activities') for donations to an organization recognized as "extremist". After ten days at the detention center on Akrescina Street, he was transferred to Remand Prison #1 (both in Minsk).

On March 16, 2023, the KGB added the political prisoner to their 'List of terrorists'.

On July 4, 2023, in the Zavodski District Court of Minsk, Judge Dzmitry Astapenka sentenced Dzmitryi Sluk to eight years and six months of imprisonment in a general-security penal colony and 300 base fines (11.100 Belarusian rubles or approx. $3.475 as of August 2023).

According to the judicial investigation, on August 20, 2021, Dzmitryi Sluk transferred the amount equivalent to $2,160 in a cryptocurrency to an organization, "being aware of the terrorist nature of their activity".

Dzmitry Sluk did not appeal the sentence and will soon be transferred to one of the Belarusian penal colonies to serve his sentence.

On June 24, 2024, a new trial was held over Dzmitry in Viciebsk to change the detention regime. Judge Mikhail Zubenia decided to transfer the man to prison. Now he is held in Mahiliou Prison No. 4.

 
Mail address: Prison No. 4. 212011, Mahilioŭ, vulica Krupskaj 99A

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