Ihar Tsikach
Date of detention: 5 October 2022
Charges indicted:
Art. 368 of the Criminal Code — Insulting the President of the Republic of Belarus
Part 1 of Art. 339 of the Criminal Code — Hooliganism
Art. 361-2 of the Criminal Code — Financing the activities of an extremist group
Art. 361-4 of the Criminal Code — Promoting extremist activities
Sentence: unknown
Penalty: imprisonment in a general-security penal colony
Judge: Vera Halaukova
Ihar Tsikach was convicted on June 15, 2023 in the Minsk City Court under Part 1 of Article 368 of the Criminal Code (insulting Lukashenka), Part 2 of Article 339 of the Criminal Code (hooliganism), Part 2 of Article 361-4 of the Criminal Code (promoting extremist activities), Article 361-2 of the Criminal Code (financing the activity of an extremist group). The case was considered by the judge Vera Halaukova.
Ihar Tsiaptseyeu, Viktar Hrynko, Yury Nestsiarenka, Uladzimir Savelyeu were convicted together with Ihar Tsikach on that day.
On September 14, 2023, the judge Edgar Martsirasyan heard an appeal against the sentences.
In early October 2022, unknown persons hung a white-red-white flag and the flag of Ukraine on a power pole in the Maskoŭski district of the capital. In the course of operative searches, police officers detained six Minsk citizens, aged 34-36. One of them was Ihar.
As the propagandist Gladkaya writes, Ihar Tsikach has left more than three thousand messages in one of the extremist chats since September 2020.
Gladkaya also notes that Savelyeu and Tsikach allegedly wanted to get visas, and Tsikach was waiting for a call from the Polish consulate. Ihar has two minor children and a wife, who has serious health problems.
It is reported that the man was sentenced to imprisonment, but the place of confinement is unknown.
