Yahor Kurzin
sentenced to 3 years imprisonment
Former political prisoner
Date of birth: 20 November 2002
Date of detention: 3 October 2022
Charges indicted:
- Art. 371 of the Criminal Code — 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.
