Former political prisonersForced emigration

Amirani Mikalayevich Butsiashvili

Dissidentby since
Viasna since

Amirani worked in freight transport. On 28 January 2022, he was detained by GUBOPiK officers: they tracked him down through photos on another detainee's phone in which he had accidentally appeared during the protests of 9–10 August 2020 in Minsk.

He was first placed in a punishment cell of the temporary detention facility on Akrestsin Street, where his jacket was taken away, and then transferred to pre-trial detention center No. 1. Amirani was held in custody for almost two months until the trial.

In March 2022, he was found guilty in a criminal case opened under the article "Organisation and preparation of actions grossly violating public order, or active participation in them" for taking part in these protests and sentenced to restricted freedom with referral to an open-type correctional facility. He pleaded guilty on his lawyer's advice and was released in the courtroom the same day.

After the verdict entered into force, Amirani left Belarus.

In February 2025, a hearing in absentia was held under special proceedings on toughening the type of punishment. The outcome of the hearing is unknown.

Sentences

Trial outcome 24.03.2022
3 years restrictions of freedom with referral to an open-type correctional facility, 21668 rubles of compensation.
Regime change trial 06.02.2025
unknown years of imprisonment in colony under general regime conditions (trial in absentia).

Involved in repression

Julia Stepanovna Shut
Julia Stepanovna Shut
Judges6 june 1988
Place:
court of Leninsky district of Minsk
Type:
Court of First Instance
Date:
24.03.2022
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Alyona Voitekhovna Busheva
Alyona Voitekhovna Busheva
Judges23 august 1976
Place:
court of the Frunzensky district of Minsk
Type:
Court of First Instance
Date:
06.02.2025
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Andrey Mikhailovich Cedric
Andrey Mikhailovich Cedric
Overseers20 april 1978
Place:
SIZO-1
Type:
Head of the correctional facility
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Igor Grigorievich Kenyukh
Igor Grigorievich Kenyukh
Overseers21 january 1980
Place:
IVS Okrestina
Type:
Head of the correctional facility
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Amirani Mikalayevich Butsiashvili
In custody:
Hometown:
Vitebsk
Birthday:
02.07.1988
Articles:
Marks:

Timeline

  1. 2022
  2. 28.01.2022

    Transfer

    IVS Okrestina — In custody

  3. 31.01.2022

    Administrative court

    Administrative arrest (10 days)

  4. ~07.02.2022

    Transfer

    SIZO-1 — In custody

  5. 24.03.2022

    Trial outcome 24.03.2022

    3 years restrictions of freedom with referral to an open-type correctional facility, 21668 rubles of compensation, court of Leninsky district of Minsk

  6. 24.03.2022

    Status change

    Released pending appeal