Yauhen Yushkevich is a former police investigator and an Android developer and initiator of the bychange.me project. He was detained on November 24, 2020 in Minsk. His apartment was searched.

Yauhen was suspected of organization and preparation of actions that grossly violate public order - Part 1 of Art. 342 of the Criminal Code.

On December 4, Yushkevich was released from pre-trial detention.

In April 2021, Yushkevich was re-arrested and faced terrorism charges.

On November 15, 2022, the trial of Yushkevich began in the Minsk City Court. He was charged under six articles of the Criminal Code: Part 1 of Art. 342 ('Active participation in actions grossly violating public order'); Part 1 Art. 293 (riots); Part 1 Art. 368 (insulting Lukashenka); Part 1 Art. 130 ('Incitement of other social enmity or hate'); Art. 369 ('Insulting a government official'); Art. 364 ('Violence or threat of violence against a law enfrecement officer'). The article on 'an act of terrorism', under which Yushkevich was initially detained, did not appear in the case. At first, the trial was open, but almost immediately Judge Alena Ananich made it a closed one.

On December 26, the political prisoner was sentenced to 11 years of imprisonment in an enhanced regime colony.

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