Siarhei Kapanets

Date of birth: 24 Oct

Date of detention: 11 Aug 2020

Charges indicted:

Part 2 of Art. 293 of the Criminal Code - Participation in riots

Prison: Pre-trial detention center No. 1

Statement on the status of a political prisoner

Siarhei Kapanets was detained as part of the "rioting case" opened following the events of August 9-13. Kapanets was later charged under Art. 293 of the Criminal Code.

He is held in pre-trial detention center No. 1 in Minsk.

Mail address: Pre-trial detention center No. 1, 220030, Minsk, vulica Valadarskaha 2

Other political prisoners

Addresses of prisons:

Pre-trial detention center No. 1

220030, Minsk, vulica Valadarskaha 2
8 017 218-79-05

101 person
Pre-trial detention center No. 7

224030, Brest, vulica Savieckich pamiežnikaŭ 37
8 017 218-79-01

17 persons
Pre-trial detention center No. 8

222163, Žodzina, vulica Savieckaja 22A

25 persons
Pre-trial detention center No. 6

225413, Baranavičy, vulica Bresckaja 258B

15 persons
Pre-trial detention center of KGB

220050, Minsk, Main Post Office, subscriber box 8

4 persons
Pre-trial detention center No. 3

246003, Homieĺ, vulica Knižnaja 1A

6 persons
Prison No. 1

230023, Hrodna, vulica Kirava 1

3 persons
Prison No. 4

212011, Mahilioŭ, vulica Krupskaj 99A

4 persons
Penal colony No. 17

213004, Škloŭ, vulica 1-ja Zavodskaja 8

1 person
Penal colony No. 9

213410, Horki, vulica Dabraliubava 16

1 person
Penal colony No. 2

213800, Babrujsk, vulica Sikorskaha 1

1 person
Pre-trial detention center No. 2

210026, Viciebsk, vulica Gagaryna 2

2 persons
Penal colony No. 1

211440, Navapolack, vulica Techničnaya 8

1 person

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