Former political prisonersForced emigration

Yahor Mikalayevich Kuzmin

Dissidentby since
Viasna since

Yegor was arrested on September 6, 2021, in connection with a criminal case involving group actions grossly violating public order. In November of that year, he was convicted of participating in protests that took place in Minsk in 2020.

In December 2024, a court hearing in absentia was held as part of a special proceeding to replace the restriction of freedom with a referral to imprisonment in a penal colony.

Sentences

Trial outcome 17.11.2021
3 years restrictions of freedom with referral to an open-type correctional facility.
Regime change trial 16.12.2024
unknown years of imprisonment in colony under general regime conditions (trial in absentia).

Involved in repression

Elena Vyacheslavovna Kaptsevich
Elena Vyacheslavovna Kaptsevich
Judges11 june 1978
Place:
court of Zavodskoy district of Minsk
Type:
Court of First Instance
Date:
17.11.2021
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Anastasia Mikhailovna Leykovskaya
Anastasia Mikhailovna Leykovskaya
Judges22 december 1992
Place:
court of Pervomaisky district of Minsk
Type:
Court of First Instance
Date:
16.12.2024
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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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Yahor Mikalayevich Kuzmin
In custody:
Hometown:
Navapolatsk
Birthday:
03.04.1998
Articles:
Marks:

Timeline

  1. 2021
  2. 06.09.2021

    Transfer

    SIZO-1 — In custody

  3. 17.11.2021

    Trial outcome 17.11.2021

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

  4. 17.11.2021

    Status change

    Released pending appeal

  5. ~17.12.2021

    Status change

    Forced emigration

  6. 2024
  7. 16.12.2024

    Regime change trial 16.12.2024

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