Kiryl Vevel
Prisoner
Date of birth: 23 January 1984
Date of detention: 17 January 2024
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: 3 years
Penalty: imprisonment in a medium-security penal colony
Judge: Sviatlana Charapanava
Kiryl Vevel was arrested in January 2024. He was initially detained for a few days for "petty hooliganism," but was not released and a criminal case was opened.
According to dissident.by, Kiryl worked in various companies that sell industrial equipment. Also in 2015, he founded a small company "Grifcom-Vector" (closed in 2021). Kiryl writes music and film scripts.
