Yahor Kurzin

sentenced to 3 years imprisonment

Former prisoner

Date of birth: 20 November 2002

Date of detention: 3 October 2022

Charges indicted:

  • Art. 371 of the Criminal Code β€” Illegal crossing of the state border of the Republic of Belarus
  • Art. 435 of the Criminal Code - Evasion of conscription measures

Sentence: 3 years

Penalty: imprisonment in a medium-security penal colony

Date of release: 28 May 2024

Judge: Viktar Sianko

Cases: Solidarity with political prisoners

Groups: Students

Yahor Kurzin is 21 years old. He is a former student of the Belarusian State University of Informatics and Radioelectronics. He was arrested in late September 2022, while trying to cross the Belarus-Lithuania border.

He is on trial together with Anita Bakunovich and Mikalai Kuliashou for an 'attempt to illegally cross the border' under Part 1 of Article 14 and Part 3 of Article 371, and for 'evading military conscription' under Part 1 of Article 435 of the Criminal Code of Belarus.

On April 5, 2023, in the Hrodna Regional Court, Judge Viktar Sianko sentenced Yahor Kurzin to three years of imprisonment in a general-security penal colony.

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