Yury Alkhavik

Prisoner

Date of birth: 3 June 1987

Date of detention: 15 October 2023

Charges indicted:

Art. 361 of the Criminal Code — Calls for actions aimed at causing harm to the national security of the Republic of Belarus

Sentence: unknown

Judge: Tatsiana Falkouskaya

Yury Alkhavik

Yury Alkhavik was detained in the autumn of 2023 for calls for sanctions. A criminal case under Part 3 of Article 361 of the Criminal Code was brought against Yury.

According to pro-government TV channel Belarus-1, Yury Alkhavik wrote a letter to the European company asking to stop cooperation with the Belarusian company included in the sanction list.

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