Yauhen Buinitski

Date of birth: 25 April 1992

Date of detention: 5 August 2021

Charges indicted:

Art. 371 of the Criminal Code — Illegal crossing of the state border of the Republic of Belarus

Sentence: 4 1/2 years

Penalty: imprisonment in a medium-security penal colony

Judge: Dzmitryi Tsivunchyk

Prison: Penal colony No. 17

Yauhen Buinitski was detained on charges under Part 3 of Art. 371 of the Criminal Code for organizing illegal border crossing by citizens fleeing arbitrary politically motivated persecution by the Belarusian authorities.

Mail address: Penal colony No. 17. 213004, Škloŭ, vulica 1-ja Zavodskaja 8

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