Maksim Senik

in custody pending trial

Prisoner

Date of birth: 2 February 1979

Date of detention: 10 January 2023

Charges indicted:

  • Art. 368 of the Criminal Code — Insulting the President of the Republic of Belarus
  • Art. 361-1 of the Criminal Code — Creation of an extremist formation, or participation in it

Sentence: 4 years

Penalty: imprisonment in a medium-security penal colony

Prison sentence start date: 25 August 2023

Judge: Mikalai Rachynski

Prison: Penal colony No. 2

Groups: Activists

Cases: Protests in Hrodna

Maksim Senik is a member of the independent trade union at Hrodna Azot (a major state-run Belarusian producer of nitrogen compounds and fertilizers).

He was arrested in Hrodna for participating in the protest actions in 2020 and for reposting on social networks. He is kept in the pre-trial detention center of the Hrodna prison.

Mail address: Penal colony No. 2. 213800, Babrujsk, vulica Sikorskaha 1

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