Former political prisonersForced emigration

Anastasiia Bahdanauna Vajtovich

Dissidentby since
Viasna since

Anastasia, a former MSLU student who was expelled for participating in the 2020 protests in Minsk, was arrested in November 2021 as part of a criminal case opened under the article "organizing and preparing actions that grossly violate public order, or active participation in them," and remanded in custody pending trial.

In March 2022, she was found guilty of participating in a "linkage" at one of the protests and was sentenced to restricted freedom with referral to an open correctional facility.

She left Belarus before starting to serve her sentence.

In November 2024, a court hearing in absentia was held as part of a special proceeding on the issue of replacing the restriction of freedom with imprisonment in a penal colony.

Sentences

Trial outcome 15.03.2022
3 years restrictions of freedom with referral to an open-type correctional facility.
Regime change trial 19.11.2024
unknown years of imprisonment in colony under general regime conditions (trial in absentia).

Involved in repression

Anastasia Vasilevna Achalova
Anastasia Vasilevna Achalova
Judges15 october 1992
Place:
court of Leninsky district of Minsk
Type:
Court of First Instance
Date:
15.03.2022
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Julia Alexandrovna Bliznyuk
Julia Alexandrovna Bliznyuk
Judges18 october 2026
Place:
court of the Frunzensky district of Minsk
Type:
Court of First Instance
Date:
19.11.2024
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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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Anastasiia Bahdanauna Vajtovich
In custody:
Hometown:
Vilyeyka
Birthday:
23.08.2002
Articles:
Groups:
Students
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Timeline

  1. 2021
  2. 24.11.2021

    Transfer

    SIZO-1 — In custody

  3. 2022
  4. 15.03.2022

    Trial outcome 15.03.2022

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

  5. 15.03.2022

    Status change

    Released pending appeal

  6. ~02.04.2022

    Status change

    Forced emigration

  7. 2024
  8. 19.11.2024

    Regime change trial 19.11.2024

    unknown years of imprisonment in colony under general regime conditions (trial in absentia), court of the Frunzensky district of Minsk