Siarhei Liakhnovich

Prisoner

Date of birth: 27 November 1978

Date of detention: 11 November 2021

Charges indicted:

  • Art. 130 of the Criminal Code — Incitement to hatred
  • Art. 350 of the Criminal Code - Destruction, blocking or modification of computer information

Sentence: unknown

Judge: Yauhen Khatkevich

Groups: Businessmen

Cases: Solidarity with political prisoners

On the list of “terrorists” (Money transfers are prohibited)

Siarhei Liakhnovich was taken into custody under Part 2 of Art. 350 (Modification of computer information) and Part 1 of Art. 130 of the Criminal Code for providing his personal computer for a cyber attack on the website of the Belarusian State Medical University in response to repression against students.

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