Siarhei Yunchyts

Political prisoner

Date of birth: 10 July 1974

Date of detention: 23 January 2024

Charges indicted:

  • Art. 361-2 of the Criminal Code — Financing the activities of an extremist group
  • Art. 361-4 of the Criminal Code — Promoting extremist activities

Sentence: 5 years

Penalty: imprisonment in a medium-security penal colony

Judge: Kurhanava Alena

Prison: Prison No. 4

Notes: «Solidarity Raid»

Siarhei Yunchyts was arrested for solidarity with the political prisoners.

The trial began on October 2, 2024, in the Minsk Regional Court. He is charged under the following articles of the Criminal Code: "Financing extremist activities" (Article 361-2), "Promoting extremist activities" (Article 361-4). He faces up to eight years in a penal colony. Judge Alena Kurganava is presiding over the trial.

 
Place of detention: Prison No. 4. 212011, Mahilioŭ, vulica Krupskaj 99A

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